AIRPORTS
Heathrow Airport (081) 759 4321
Approximately 45-minutes drive from central London. A licensed taxi (black cab) will clock up about £35 ($55) on the meter from the airport to the West End of London. Avoid taxi-touts as they are likely to rip you off.
Buses run every half hour from outside the department terminals and you can catch the A1 bus to Victoria and the A2 bus to Russell Square, in central London.
From Heathrow you can take the London underground using the Piccadilly Line, which will take you right into the West End, via Knightsbridge, Green Park, Piccadilly and Leicester Square.
Gatwick Airport (0293) 535353
Situated about 30 miles south of London. The cheapest and quickest way to reach town is by the Express train which takes 30 minutes. Once at Victoria Station, there are several buses as well as a taxi rank, and Oxford Street is about 10 minutes' drive away.
A licensed cab will cost about £45 ($70) with an approximate journey time of one hour to central London.
Stansted Airport (0279) 680500
Stansted is a 40-minute train journey from London's Liverpool Street station and trains run every half hour.
London City Airport 474 5555
Only six minutes from the City of London and can be reached by river-bus from all piers east of Chelsea Harbour. It boasts an unbelievable check-in time of 10 minutes and current flight destinations are Brussels, Berlin, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rotterdam and Zurich.
AIRLINES
airlines
Air France (081) 742 6600
American Airlines (081) 572 5555
British Airways (081) 897 4000
Cathay Pacific 747 8888
Japan Airlines 408 1000
KLM (081) 750 9000
Lufthansa 408 0442
SAS 734 4020
Singapore Airlines 439 8111
United Airlines (081) 990 9900
Virgin Atlantic (0293) 562000
FLYING TIMES
London Heathrow-Paris 1hr 5mins
Heathrow-Milan 1hr 50mins
Heathrow-New York 8hrs
Heathrow-Los Angeles 11hrs
Heathrow-Sydney 21hrs 30mins
Heathrow-Tokyo 11hrs 55mins
TAXIS
Computer Cabs 286 0286
Data Cabs 727 7200
Radio Taxis 272 0272
Urgent Cars 580 1133
West One Minicabs 833 3636
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
London's public transport is made up of buses, trains and the underground ('the tube'). Buses are very frequent throughout the city and are a cheap way to travel. However, during the rush hour expect your journey to take twice as long! The tube is cheap and accessible, and when it is not held up by faults on the line, it is faster than anything with an engine on the road. It stops running at around midnight and resumes at 6.00.
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