Quote:
"Well, the public transport share to and from UK airports varies a lot. In the 2010 CAA Airport Survey for 12 English airports the public share was as follows:
London City = 52.4%
Stansted = 47.8%
Gatwick = 40.4%
Heathrow = 39.2%
Luton = 32.8%
Birmingham = 24.9%
Liverpool = 17.9%
Manchester = 13.6%
East Midlands = 8.7%
Doncaster = 8.5%
Leeds Bradford = 6.5%
Humberside = 0.5%
Surprised that the public transport figure for Manchester-Ringway is so low considering that there are so many rail destinations available to/from the airport station.
Ditto for Birmingham-Elmdon considering the main line station is adjacant to the terminal.
Interesting that the 5 "London" airports are top of this list.
Quote:
"The three best in Europe the same year had the following public share:
Oslo, Norway = 67%
Zurich, Switzerland = 59%
Copenhagen, Denmark = 57%
All three of these European airports are sitting on top of a hight speed rail link in to the city centre, and with a travel time of only 11 to 19 minutes."
This is not comparing like with like. Try comparing the big conurbations:
LHR/LGW/LCY/LTN/STN with ORY/CDG, JFK/LGA/EWR, or DME/SVO/VKO.