London - Cheap Flights to London
Flying to London has never been easier. Millions of travelers book cheap flights to London, England to visit this quaint city each year. London (all airports code: LON) has six international airports - Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City, and Southend. All of them are less than an hour from the city center. Just over an hour from the city center are Southampton and Birmingham international airports.
Heathrow (airport code LHR) is London and Europe’s largest airport and the world’s busiest airport in terms of international passenger movement, with services available from most major airports worldwide. It’s twelve miles west of the city. Here you have various possibilities to reach the city center: the Picadilly underground line (takes about 50 min to the center), either the smart, fast but expensive Heathrow Express rail - which connects the airport to Paddington station - or one of the two Airbus services. No. 1 runs south of Hyde Park to Victoria station, No. 2 follows a more northern line to terminate at King’s Cross Station. After midnight you should take night bus No. 97.
Gatwick (airport code LGW): London’s second airport, also serving a large spectrum of places worldwide, thirty miles south of the city, has a nonstop Express rail service from and to Victoria Train Station (journey time 30 min, runs every 15 min). Other trains operated by South Central, usually making two stops before Victoria, are slower but cheaper. Flightline buses depart for Victoria Coach Station from Gatwick’s North and South terminals.
Stansted (airport code STN): Currently London’s third airport, the base for a large number of budget carriers (for example EasyJet and RyanAir) and flights within Europe and a few intercontinental flights, 34 miles northeast of the capital. It is served by Skytrain trains to Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale, where you can connect with London’s underground services. Flightline coaches also run a daily service.
Luton (airport code LTN): London’s smallest and least congested airport, Luton is mostly used by private jets, although two airlines have their home there: EasyJet who offer discount flights to continental Europe and Silverjet who fly low fare business class to New York and Dubai. Luton is 2 miles from the M1 motorway, 45 minutes by car from central London and 5 minutes from Luton Parkway rail station, which has a 22-minute service to London St. Pancras station, which is also the terminus for the high-speed Eurostar train to Paris. Other trains connect to all points in the UK. Bus No. 757 runs directly to Marble Arch and Victoria (journey time about 85 min).
London City Airport (airport code LCY): A commuter airport close to the city’s financial district, and specializing in short-haul business flights to other major European cities.
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