London airports - If you are flying to London you must understand which London airport you land

London has several airports. In this blog post I explain what are the London airports and what are their differences and hot to get from airport to the city. I present the airports in order of importance.

London Heathrow (LHR) - The main airport of London

London Heathrow is the busiest airport in the UK and actually also whole Europe. Heathrow has five terminals and two parallel runways. Heathrow lies on the west side of London. How to get to the London center from Heathrow? The answer is simple, underground. London underground stops at Heathrow and it's cheaper and sometimes also faster than taxi. Taxis in London are prices so high that they are legalized robbery.

London Gatwick (LGW) - The second airport in London

London Gatwick is the second busiest airport in the London metropolitan region, and is the busiest single runway airport in the world. British Airways and Flybe use Gatwick for selected flights and some low cost carriers also fly to Gatwick. Gatwick is not connected to London metro as Heathrow but there is train connection from the airport to the London center.

London City Airport - LCY

In theory London City is nice airport because it's closest to the city. However the size of the airport is a slight problem. The one and only runway is so short that it makes longhaul flights difficult. However British Airways manages somehow to fly Airbus A318 flights between London City Airport and New York JFK.

London Stansted (STN) - Low cost carrier airport

London Stansted Airport actually is located in Essex and it's the major airport for low fares airline Ryanair. Basically London Stansted exists only for Ryanair. They fly majority of flights from and to Stansted. There are bus and train connections between London and Stansted Airport.

London Luton (LTN) - Secondary low cost carrier airport

If Stansted was for Ryanair then we can say that Luton is for other low fare airlines like Easyjet and Wizzair.

London Southend (SEN) - One more airport for low fare carriers

Because low fare carriers compete heavily in Europe they all seem to need their own airports and therefore London needs one more airport.

Norwegian Air Shuttle Cheap flights from Gatwick to New York - Campaign code for 30% discount

Norwegian Air Shuttle is Norway based low cost carrier that has been market leader of cheap flights in Northern Europe for many years. They have dominated low fairs flight business in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland for several years. Their long distance flights are rather new but they are opening new routes frequently.

One of the Norwegian long distance cheap flights is London Gatwick - New York -flight. The cheapest flights they are selling at the moment are London Gatwick-New York one way ticket 208€ (<200 GBP) and New York - London Gatwick one way ticket 108,10€ (<100 GBP). They are really cheap London - New York flights!

If you book these London Gatwick - New York flights today at Norwegian website using campaign code BLACKFRIDAY, you will get extra 30% discount on these cheap flight tickets. If you are not going to New York you can use same campaign codes for other Norwegian Air Shuttle flights as well. The list of Norwegian routes from London Gatwick is linked.

Cheapest flights London-New York

For few years I've been blogging about the cheap flights in Europe. I write in Finnish language Halpalennot Suomesta and Halpalennot Tallinnasta -blogs. In addition to these I write Cheap Flights Sales, which is a general blog about cheap flights in Europe. In this blog you can read more about cheap overseas flights between London and New York.