Originally Posted by
steamchicken
*Sigh*. People do insist on saying this don't they? Schiphol is NOT closer to Scotland, the North, or Northern Ireland than LHR.
The last poster didn't say that. In fact nowhere in the UK is closer to AMS than to LHR apart from Shetland, which is a tad academic.
The point obviously being made was that AMS is connected to more UK airports than LHR is. Nobody expects that to change with Heathrow expansion.