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The London to New York Air Route is an air route between London, UK, and New York, US. These two cities are connected by a heavily utilised 2,999-nautical-mile (3,451 mi; 5,554 km) air route which has been historically important to transatlantic aviation and is today served by several major airlines ( British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and JetBlue Airways: United Airlines flies out of the nearby airport of Newark, 9 miles [14 km] away from downtown Manhattan). [1] [2] The airports of Heathrow and JFK are the main international airports for the London metropolitan area and New York metropolitan area respectively, the world's two most important global cities. [3] The route sustains the highest number of passenger seat kilometers per annum of any route globally (10.92 billion ASK's were scheduled in 2015). [4] In 2018 British Airways achieved a revenue of $1.16 billion on this route alone, making their operation the highest value airline route globally. [5] The route saw a total traffic figure in 2018 of 3,034,155 (+3.0% on 2017), the busiest of any transatlantic air route. [6] [7]
Prior to the aircraft's retirement British Airways operated a double daily supersonic Concorde service on the route which covered the 2,999 nmi (3,451 mi; 5,554 km) distance in a scheduled time of 3 hours 15 minutes westbound and just under 3 hours eastbound. [8]
Below is a table of passenger numbers flying between Heathrow and JFK by year as published by the UK CAA. [9]
Year | Total
Passengers |
Annual Change | Passenger
Kilometers (Billions) |
---|---|---|---|
2019 | 3,192,195 | 5.2% | 17,730 |
2018 | 3,034,155 | 3.0% | 16.852 |
2017 | 2,945,744 | 0.4% | 16.361 |
2016 | 2,934,554 | 3.8% | 16.299 |
2015 | 3,050,499 | 2.6% | 16.942 |
2014 | 2,972,729 | 1.4% | 16.511 |
2013 | 3,015,218 | 6.2% | 16.747 |
2012 | 2,839,007 | 6.0% | 15.768 |
2011 | 2,678,991 | 6.4% | 14.879 |
2010 | 2,517,896 | 1.6% | 13.984 |
2009 | 2,478,722 | 11.6% | 13.767 |
2008 | 2,802,870 | 1.3% | 15.567 |
2007 | 2,839,221 | 3.2% | 15.769 |
2006 | 2,751,835 | - | 15.284 |
The fastest time for an airliner on the route is 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds, this was achieved on an eastbound JFK- LHR Concorde service on 7 February 1996. [10]
The current fastest subsonic passenger service on the route was achieved by British Airways on 9 February 2020 with a time of 4 hours 56 minutes. The Boeing 747-400 (registration: G-CIVP) operating flight BA112 departed JFK at 18:30 Eastern Standard time on February 8 and landed at Heathrow at 06:25 GMT on February 9. The maximum recorded groundspeed was 825 mph (717 kn; 1,328 km/h). [11]