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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva
I'm sure having 3 airports helps greatly with a population around double of Sydney.
You may have your times wrong as well re the curfews, Just looked up Heathrow and they have arrival / departure info showing 3 planes landed at 5:05 and 5:25am.
Seems Heathrow is much bigger as well (5 terminals??) and around 170,000 more aircraft movements per year compared to Sydney.
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I worked for heathrow for 5 years designing the new Eastern campus development.
The six 'London' (within 64 Km's) airports serve the south east of the UK not just london, giving a population of near 25 million people access to near 135 million passenger flights a year and near 2 million tonnes of freight. (sydney is circa 35 million passengers) for a city of 3.5 million
Curfew is probably the wrong word, the hours quoted are hours of restricted use limiting the runways to certain code aircraft determined by sound emittance. the other airports not named in my post have different restrictions.
JP