There are approximately 50 daily departures from Dublin to all five London airports (Stansted, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow and London City), The Dublin-London route is the second busiest route in the world after the Hong Kong-Taipei route.
During the 1980s, major competition, especially on the Dublin-London routes, resulted in passenger numbers swelling to 5.1 million in 1989.
Top 10 International Arrivals Figures for 2008. Rank Origin Number of Passengers 1 London Heathrow Airport, England, United Kingdom 894,536 2 London Gatwick Airport, England, United Kingdom 541,593 3 London Stansted Airport, England, United Kingdom 462,756
Rank Origin Number of Passengers 1 London Heathrow Airport, England, United Kingdom 894,536 2 London Gatwick Airport, England, United Kingdom 541,593 3 London Stansted Airport, England, United Kingdom 462,756
Conclusions: the Eurostar figures count both departing and arriving passengers, otherwise the Heathrow figures for 2008 would be way off between different sources. The total Dublin-London traffic is over twice that for Dublin-Heathrow and it probably does exceed the Madrid-Barcelona traffic but it didn't in 2007 (Madrid-Barcelona was 33% higher a year earlier).
100 passengers per flight is a better average than 200 at least for the Dublin-London distance range. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Perhaps the "second busiest route in the world" only applies to international routes? notes from no w here
Surely you mean DDA and Wikipedia (Irish Sea Tunnel article) figures. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I mean Eurostat, of course. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
