Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to London..

Steyr

London Oxford Airport that is:pac:

Talk about crazy:pac: Fair enough it might be a little bit busy but its got nothing really to do with London. Priceless.

http://www.oxfordairport.co.uk/

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14586
Quote: DamienB off UKAR "Kidlington is nearly 56 miles from central London. It's actually closer to central Birmingham, and Bristol and Southampton are similar distances. Surely they could have capitalised on this by calling it Birmingham-London-Bristol-Southampton-Oxford Airport?"

Davidth88

Kidlington is now London good god.......

I used to cycle there occasionally to watch the OATS ( Oxford Air Training School ) Pa28's . Then on to Upper Heyford to watch the F111's

I suppose if you can call Bishop Stortford ( STN ) or Crawley ( LGW ) London , then Oxford isn't so far .....

Oxford to London via M40 is about 40 min to 1 hr

Fratton Fred

Its not a big commercial airfield though is it? I thought it was only private light aircraft that use it.

I think though, it is still closer to London than Beauvais is to Paris so maybe Mr O'Leary might be interested....

cyrusdvirus

saw this on another site today...

Every UK airport to be prefixed with the word ‘London’

Following the renaming of London Oxford airport, plans have been announced to rename every mainland UK airport by pre-fixing each address with the word London.

The move is seen as a way increasing tourism to those parts of the country not normally visited by foreign holiday makers, by luring in visitors not familiar with the concept of maps.

62 year-old American Jethrow Walton told us, “We took a trip to London last year and it was rubbish.”

“We flew into an area of London known as ‘Luton’, but we couldn’t find anything about it in the guide books.”

“After 10 days of wandering around housing estates which appeared to be a homage to the fallen eastern bloc countries, we left for home quite disappointed.”

Legitimate

Airport owners have been quick to defend the renaming decision, “Okay, so they’re not technically IN London, but where do you draw the line?”

“10 miles away like London Heathrow? 30 miles like London Gatwick? 60 miles like London Oxford? 300 miles like London Newcastle?”

“We are confident this will significantly raise the profile of some of our smaller regional airports,”

“Plus, all those stupid international visitors are likely to land and spend money on site before realising they are slap bang in the middle of ****ing nowhere.”

http://newsarse.com/2009/08/every-uk-airport-to-be-prefixed-with-the-word-london/

Davidth88

To be fair

' Frankfurt ' Hahn..... thats a disused USAF base 100 odd km from Frankfurt

As Fratton Fread says Beauvais is a tent about 60 odd km from Paris

The place FR call Brussels is nothing of the sort.

Alun

To a northerner like me pretty much anything south-east of Birmingham can be considered to be London