American Reacts Why does London have so many airports?

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[@AhsokaTanoTheWhite]

Connor, it would take weeks to get to india from Lodnon in the last 19th century by ship, believe me, 9 days is VERY fast.

[@mats7492]

Getting to the US from the UK still took 2-3 weeks in the mid 1800s…

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

@@mats7492 that was the time of colonization

[@mats7492]

Entering an exiting a plane via the tarmac and stairs is still the standard in Europe for small inter-city flights (Amsterdam to Paris for example)

[@Londronable]

I use Oostende in Belgium to travel to Spain often instead of going all the way to Brussels. They too just take a buss and stairs. Honestly, so few people and everything just goes so smoothly. Much nicer experience than a busy airport.

[@feralgrandad4429]

Mate, we still get on and off the plane on the runway at when using budget airlines. Especially London Luton and London Stansted etc.

[@Isleofskye]

Congratulations on over 13,000 Subscribers Mc. May your Star always be in its ascendency...

[@t.p.mckenna]

London's airports have adequate bridge connections to link people to the terminal, but they charge expensive landings (including berth and bridgeway). Budget airlines therefore go for a tarmac only slot and have contract bus services to get passengers to the terminal building.

[@coot1925]

I lived right next to RAF northolt in a place called Ruislip Gardens. Every year we hold remembrance Day to remember the fallen of all the wars. Spitfires, hurricanes, Lancaster bombers & sometimes American mustangs would fly in from all over the UK. Then take off one at time & circle over our house until they were all airborne, then do their fly-pass over London. My mum had to take all her china ornaments down otherwise they would vibrate all fall. The sound of a spitfire 100 feet over your head with it's rolls Royce merlin engine was unforgettable. P.s. the queens flight is based at northolt & they have built a passenger terminal there for rich people to land their private jets.

[@frankmitchell3594]

Reusing former RAF airfields as airport meant there was already a precedence for flying so it was harder to object to its use.

[@vaudevillian7]

It still happens, have definitely accessed aircraft from steps

[@Chris_GY1]

Northolt is RAF Northolt where in 1997 Diana Princess of Wales body was flown there. Hendon became RAF Hendon now RAF Hendon Museum whose sister museum another former RAF base became RAF Cosford Museum. RAF Duxford became The Imperial War Museum Duxford. RAF Ringway became Manchester Airport. RAF Kirmington became Humberside International Airport (Guy Martin former TT racer, lorry mechanic and tv presenter lives in the area). RAF Fininley became Doncaster Airport. RAF Biggin Hill is now an International Airport, museum, Heritage Flight (you can have flight in a Hurricane or Spitfire for £2,500 or with 9 mates you can all enjoy a flight for £27,500, there is a museum as well) and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone stores car collection on the site. RAF Manston became an International Airport and is currently waiting to reopen as one. Some former RAF bases became housing estates, industrial estates and one is now Britain’s biggest antiques centre.

[@t.p.mckenna]

He didn't return to the topic of Biggin Hill and that questionable 1994 date. I don't think it's ever been open to commercial traffic. Just executive and charter.

[@Avg_egll]

Terminal buildings generally have jetways (bridges) to get to the planes, but they are expensive. Most small airports will have stairs as they are cheaper

[@goldboy150]

Dodgy can mean both sketchy or of poor construction/quality and perhaps, unsafe. So you could say something like “we can cross the river there.” “I dunno…that bridge looks a bit dodgy” You could also say, “the station is a 5 minute walk that way - but that street is a bit dodgy, so let’s take the long way round”

[@mothmagic1]

That is a question many British people would like a sensible answer to. I live 65 miles from London but a few years ago our local (predominently) training airfield restyled itself London Oxford Airport. I would never make fun of anyone who has a fear of flying, it's not a normal thing for the human body. People like me who are willing to travel in anything that will fly are the weird ones.

[@ahb3251]

Happy Halloween, loving the spooky theme of this reaction too (you're not the only sarcastic person here lol). This reminded me of the best of Armstrong and Miller RAF pilots : kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXyWZKaia5mMhNk. It would be good for your learning of British regional accents! Hope the link works and that you check it out.

[@charlielouise2428]

I got off a plane onto the runway last week and everyone was just standing around taking selfies and pictures of the plane, the staff didn't care 😅

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Travelling by ship around 1900 took months btw not days or weeks. 6 days was awesome!

[@ghughesarch]

a couple weeks from London to Mumbai by ship in the late 19th century.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

@@ghughesarch I think it only took 2 weeks if you were in a state of the art P&O steamer after 1900. I think the average ship was still much slower. It wasnt just suez canal that shortened things though, before it opened, trains across France and Egypt could cut months off the 6 month trip round Africa.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

The Wright brothers didn’t ‘invent’ the airplane. The concept had been around for over 100 years by 1903 and the first powered heavier than air flight took place in 1848, the wrights were the first with manned powered heavier than air flight.

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

He was being sarcastic.

[@stevevids1608]

Biggin Hill has never closed it is still an Airport and caters for rich business travel into London

[@tmarritt]

From London to Egypt, would have been around a month at the time. Two/three weeks now if you go direct on a small fast sailing boat, but if your on a merchant navy ship like I used to be its still around a month, we don't build boats for speed anymore but capacity. Military ships actually built for speed I sure could do it a lot faster but I have no experience in that

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

*you're

[@martinbaker613]

I think 'wankers' is a bit unfair... City Airport is pretty decent and used by all types of folk lol

[@liftoff8285]

I think it is a word play with "bankers", as it is used by a lot of buisness people.

[@Richard_Jones]

@@liftoff8285 NO, they're just wankers.

[@pipercharms7374]

Wanker is a word XD

[@rickybuhl3176]

lol yeah, bless.. Think it may be partly why Septics suck at swearing. I think Daniel Sloss covers it best - kzbin.info/www/bejne/onK8pamHYqqbqtU

[@chadUCSD]

Someone who likes to pull his male appendage, so to speak. Lol 😜

[@neilonaniet]

10:50 - Surely your brain didn't co-apparate?

[@catherinewilkins2760]

First, happy Halloween, soon will be Bonfire night, on the 5th November.

[@nicksykes4575]

I've delivered ww2 aircraft to RAF museum Hendon, underground storage tanks to Gatwick Airport, London City Airport and RAF Brize Norton. I've delivered Tarmac laying machines to Manchester and Edinburgh Airports, but I've never been to Heathrow.

[@ghughesarch]

I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see. I've been to Paradise, but I've never been to Me.

[@PerryCJamesUK]

@@ghughesarch That's great, but just to confirm, have you been exploring that subtle whoring that costs too much to be free?

[@timglennon6814]

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

[@michael_177]

In my 20s I've still never been on an aeroplane/airplane before

[@timurlane4004]

Can you pls react to kraut's video on turkey

[@adammullarkey4996]

4:40 Well, given that period would include both world wars, I'd imagine quite a few people died. :P

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

dude, what is wrong with the sound mixing ? The music is louder than in the original video.

[@t.p.mckenna]

One sources gives the origin of dodgy as: '... originated in the 1680s and perhaps it is from or akin to Scottish and Northern English word dodd D-O-D-D meaning to jog or run.' If someone owes you some money and they jump into a side street to avoid you, that is to 'dodge' you. It's meaning then has expanded to encompass actions or behaviour that may be to your disbenefit. So, you might be sold a car which will prove unreliable and likely to let you down. That then would be a 'dodgy' motor and the man who sold it to you a 'dodgy' dealer. Sometimes, however, there can be a positive connotation to 'dodge', especially when faced with adversity eg. 'I dodged a bullet there', meaning, I got out of the way just in time, or maybe the incredibly boring guy from the Accounts Dept. is looking for someone to go drinking with and you conveniently remember you have to get home to feed your ravenous rottweiler (that you've just thought of instead of the cat you actually have that always ignores you'. Again that would be to dodge a negative outcome. Wanker is in the English and is a 'jerk' in US terms. To wank or to jerk off describe the same self-ejaculatory act ie. masturbation. A wanker is an idiot, a fool, or a waster and is a very common insult. Not kind, if meant, but a put down if you say it to a friend that has done something silly, or made a fool of themselves. 'You complete and utter waaannkerrr!!' says a guy to his mate that's just tried to chat up Sam, the lesbian bar tender. Although most religious texts do not mention the practice specifically, Jewish, Christian and muslim orthodoxy tend to forbid acts of self-abuse. The notion being that it is wrong or sinful 'to cast one's seed upon stony ground', like corn seed which would not propagate. So, the man should only ejaculate through the act of sex with the wife, keeping her happy and fateful, and maximising the chances of impregnation. A man who does otherwise and wastes his seed then is a chap of no good use, a wanker.

[@neilgayleard3842]

Of the 6 only 1 is actually in London. Something many people including British people still don't understand.

[@chadUCSD]

City Airport.

[@terilyte3152]

Both Heathrow and City are in London though...

[@chadUCSD]

@@terilyte3152 Heathrow has a Twickenham postcode but is classed as Greater London. City is the only airport IN London really.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@chadUCSD City Airport in East London, E16 post code

[@charliekendall1405]

Yo I think you should react to frankie Boyle he’s a comedian from the uk he’s well funny and very offensive 👍🏻

[@chadUCSD]

He already has on his Mr Mcjibbin page on here.

[@martinburke362]

Why does London have so many everything? As a American economist once said London is a first class city with a second class country attached to it

[@paulquaife7974]

Wanker not a word? Tis the best of words,

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

I've only got 1 leg.

[@fleshen]

Heathrow is small😂

[@chadUCSD]

Yeah it's only one of the busiest airports in the world. Continually operating at 98-99% capacity. Lol

[@iKvetch558]

Connor...the "jet bridge" that we use in most airports nowadays was first created/invented in the late 1950s, but throughout the 1960s most airport would not use them exclusively. Even today, there are many airports that have jet bridges in most terminals but still use aircraft stairs for some flights...and lots of smaller airports all over the world still use stairs exclusively. I have even seen a lot of flights that used BOTH a jet bridge and a set of stairs to board or unboard the airplane much more quickly. 🖖✌

[@steddie4514]

Aeroplane surely? Unboard???

[@iKvetch558]

@@steddie4514 You can use aircraft and deplane, if you prefer. LOL

[@SamJH6]

@@steddie4514 airplane is US English and aeroplane is British English. Both are OK.

[@SamJH6]

@@iKvetch558 deplane feels very American; we'd use disembark in the UK. I've not heard "unboard" before though.

[@iKvetch558]

@@SamJH6 Yes...I got the joke...he gave me British versions and I came right back with American ones...that's why I LOL'ed. But thanks for explaining it to me. 💯😀

[@jamesbrown-ih1ev]

Doesn't count: London City Airport

[@LAGoodz]

The reviewed video had loads of factual errors. It’s quicker to drive to Stansted from the The City and Canary Whalf than Heathrow, Luton, Gatwick even though it’s further..

[@theaces3697]

dodgy in this context means shit hole

[@ajb229]

I can’t hear you in places

[@1Anime4you]

Has anyone yet told him that the alternating red and blue flag with the lions and French symbol is the flag of the Plantaginates? Also, it is time to watch the series on the 80 Years War by DefraggedHistory.

[@stuartcollins82]

wanker is just another word for banker....

[@johnchristmas7522]

All very enlightening but the real truth is no one wants an Airport. Heathrow used to be the busiest in Europe and to keep it there required a third and forth runway. Weak clueless politicians thought to placate all the complaints about new runways at Heathrow, it would build an Airport somewhere else. Thats how Gatwick came about, in essence Heathrow's 3rd runway and then of course we needed a 4th, so Stanstead was born. In truth, weak frightened politicians created a total mess. There are still mumblings of a 3rd runway actually at Heathrow but that been kicked into the long so many times its now 45 years since the idea for a 3rd runway at Heathrow was first thought of. Its called "progress". Thats the reason there are a multitude of Airports around London instead of one. Not surprisingly, the Airlines wanted just one also, that puts Heathrow slots at a premium, which has made Heathrow one of the most expensive Airports in Europe. That too has an adverse effect, effectively forcing Airlines to delegate London to some other European Airport. So Frankfurt and Paris are to the fore. Goodbye tourists. clever.

[@t.p.mckenna]

The worst day of my life was a cancelled flight at London City with the next available service eight hours later!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got my fare refunded, but those eight hours were lost to me forever. It's the size of a postage stamp, has no facilities, and not a single molecule of fresh air.

[@martinebonita2658]

Wtf is up with the audio