[ig1]

I'm not sure it's actually a bad thing.

Realistically if he was in the UK he'd face extradition to the US. The home office putting out this alert means they won't have to do that.

The US would be happy for Snowden to enter the UK where he could easily be arrested.

[weavie]

It's a bit irrelevant. There's not a chance that he would have even considered coming to the UK.

[ig1]

Well hypothetically say he wanted to go to Iceland, you can't fly from HK to Iceland so you'd have to change in Europe.

The obvious route is changing via London Heathrow, this stops him doing that.

[kintamanimatt]

He would have a lot of options in Europe, and even from Canada on certain days.

http://www.kefairport.is/English/Timetables/Arrivals/Yesterd...

http://www.kefairport.is/English/Timetables/Arrivals/

[dalore]

Actually the airports of Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris are all bigger, better and see more traffic than outdated Heathrow.

[ig1]

You could definitely argue that Heathrow isn't the best airport, but it's clearly the biggest by passenger numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in...

(CDG might be bigger for non-human traffic)

[mercurial]

As a French citizen, I'd like to object vigorously to the notion that Paris (if you mean Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris' main airport) is one of the "better" airports.

If I believe wikipedia, Heathrow is actually Europe's busiest airport (CDG is next).

[dalore]

As a UK citizen I vigorously object that Heathrow is the "best" airport.