Here's a neat ATC time lapse/animation or 3 for anyone interested:
London:
https://vimeo.com/132804154
UK:
https://vimeo.com/111844476
Transatlantic:
https://vimeo.com/98941796
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Originally Posted by misd-agin
LHR, LGW, Stansted is approx. 900,000 annual movements. I don't know the traffic at other local airports.
JFK, LGA, EWR, TEB, HPN, ISP, SWF is about 1,750,000 annual movements.
JFK/LGA/EWR are 18 nm apart. 1,170,000 movements. Add in TEB, overflown by EWR arrivals on base leg, and it's 1,340,000 movements.
The LA basin has over 3,000,000 movements.
I may have poorly communicated the point I was attempting to make (I suspected you were possibly on the troll tbh!) but I was trying to highlight the fact that IF your previous comment:
Originally Posted by misd-agin
The difference in workload in the U.S. ATC system vs. the 'busy' European cities is almost night and day. A 'busy' period overseas is an easy day at work for U.S. based pilots.
is true [I'm not certain that it is] then it would tend to suggest that the significantly higher workload to which you refer must be at least be partly the result of procedural differences, as the difference in numbers involved in terms of airspace congestion/traffic, comparing LON to NYC for example, are not exactly "night and day" in my view:
According ACI (Airports Council International), NYC metropolitan area (JFK + EWR + LGA + HPN + ISP + SWF) is the busiest airport system in the world in terms of total flight operations with 1,581,300 annual movements and the 2nd busiest in the world in terms of pax numbers with 121m pax annually.
LON (LHR + LGW + STN + LTN + LCY + SEN) is the 2nd busiest airport system in the world in terms of total flight operations with 1,277,600 annual movements and the busiest airport system in the world in terms of pax numbers with 146m pax annually.
2014 (not including overflights)
LON = 1,277,600 annual movements, 7 runways = ~499 per runway per day
NYC = 1,581,300 annual movements, 17 runways = ~255 per runway per day
Simplistically, NYC ATC is handling ~23% more traffic than LON ATC, so the difference in workload shouldn't be "night and day" and if it is, it can't logically be solely the result of the increased traffic volume. One might even argue the workload in LON ought to be greater to some extent, given the traffic distribution/substantially higher number of movements per runway.
All just IMHO of course... and notwithstanding that I may have misunderstood your post entirely!
All the best.