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by ig1 4752 days ago
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.
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kintamanimatt 4752 days ago
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/

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dalore 4752 days ago
Actually the airports of Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris are all bigger, better and see more traffic than outdated Heathrow.
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ig1 4752 days ago
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)

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mercurial 4752 days ago
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).

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dalore 4747 days ago
As a UK citizen I vigorously object that Heathrow is the "best" airport.
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