Originally Posted by
Magplug
Go and check out the stats.... London remains the busiest airspace in the world - ahead of New York by a significant margin. In fact the LHR, LGW, LTN, STN, CDG, ORY, RTM, AMS triangle is controlled by 3 different countries depite being a similar area size to New York ARTCC. Nobody gets shouted at, nobody gets angry and no controllers speak patronisingly to foreign aircraft as if they are idiots. Most importantly they remain professional with no macho BS.
I hope you get to read this before another of my posts gets taken down. I appear to have a knack of hitting the nail on the head.
Are they all sandwiched in a 20 mile circle? We don't claim to be the busiest, but nobody beats this place in complexity. Apples and oranges my friend!
Also, don't compare NY ARTCC to us. We are the New York Tracon or N90. Our airspace is a tiny fraction of ZNY's (NY ARTCC).