Editing Transport in the United Kingdom (section)

==Air transport==
{{Main|Air transport in the United Kingdom}}
{{See also|List of busiest airports in the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Heathrow Terminal 5C Iwelumo-1.jpg|thumb|[[Airports of London|London]] has the [[List of busiest city airport systems by passenger traffic|busiest city airport system]] in the world, with Heathrow being the world's second busiest airport by [[World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic|international passenger traffic.]]<ref name="geography.about.com">{{cite web|url=http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/busiestairports.htm|title=Where Are the 30 Busiest Airports in the World?|website=Geography.about.com|access-date=28 April 2009|archive-date=18 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218014220/http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/busiestairports.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ]]
There are 471 airports and airfields in the UK. There are also 11 [[heliport]]s. [[Heathrow Airport]] is the largest airport by traffic volume in the country, is owned by [[Heathrow Airport Holdings]], and also one of the top 10 [[world's busiest airport]]s by passenger numbers. [[Gatwick Airport]] is the second largest airport, is owned by [[Global Infrastructure Partners]], and the third largest is [[Manchester Airport]], which is run by [[Manchester Airport Group]], which also owns various other airports.

Other major airports include [[Stansted Airport]] in [[Essex]] and [[Luton Airport]] in [[Bedfordshire]], both about {{convert|30|mi|km}} north of London, [[Birmingham Airport]] in [[Metropolitan Borough of Solihull|Solihull]], [[Newcastle International Airport|Newcastle Airport]], [[Liverpool John Lennon Airport|Liverpool Airport]], and [[Bristol Airport]].

Outside England, [[Cardiff Airport|Cardiff]], [[Edinburgh Airport|Edinburgh]] and [[Belfast International Airport|Belfast]], are the busiest airports serving Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.

The largest airline in the United Kingdom by passenger traffic is [[easyJet]], whereas [[British Airways]] is largest by fleet size and international destinations. Others include [[Jet2]], [[TUI Airways]] and [[Virgin Atlantic]].