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0 pointsdmurray1y ago0 comments

This is laughably poor geography.

Both Gatwick [0] and Stansted are busier than either Washington airport [1], and if you're considering Miami as an alternative to Atlanta then why not similarly ridiculous options like Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin for passengers stuck in Heathrow?

Miami and DC aren't even close to the nearest major airport cities to Atlanta. Charlotte and Orlando are many hours closer and busier [1] in terms of commercial passengers (though still not as convenient as the UK's comparable airports).

Only about a quarter of Heathrow passengers are transiting [2] and a significant portion of those are citizens of the US, EU, UK and other countries who don't need a visa. Maybe 10% of passengers are stuck in limbo, not half of them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_in_...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/303939/flight-transfers-...

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dang1y ago

I'm late to this thread, but can you please edit out swipes from your HN comments? Your comment would be excellent without that first bit.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

crossroadsguy1y ago

Hi dang, did you extend their comments' "editability" or is it already a feature I have been missing all along? I mean ability to edit/delete after a certain time (I guess it's a few hours right now?).

pvg1y ago

It's an aspirational 'edit out'. As in, 'don't include them in the future'.

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