Can you name the Top 50 busiest routes from London Heathrow Airport? by angularity

Country	Airport
United States of America
Ireland
Netherlands
United Arab Emirates
China
France
United States of America
United States of America
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
Singapore
United States of America
Canada
United States of America
Germany
Italy
South Africa
Denmark
United Kingdom
Sweden
United States of America
Switzerland
United States of America

Country	Airport
India
Australia
Japan
United States of America
Spain
India
Austria
Greece
Portugal
United Kingdom
Israel
Belgium
Turkey
Italy
Norway
Thailand
Switzerland
South Africa
Finland
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Canada
lreland
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Heathrow's Top 50 busiest routes Quiz

by angularity

Created Sep 28, 2009 in Geography
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	johnlk:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 22:19 GMT		2 points
	Weird that Dublin and Cork are on there, but not Shannon.

	angularity:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 22:24 GMT		3 points
	Shannon isn't so strong to Heathrow. Lots of flights from Shannon to the likes of Stansted and Gatwick, I believe.

	DRB:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT		1 point
	"Country" for Hong Kong needs to be China. Can't really do much about Singapore I guess which makes it fairly easy! Overall good quiz, generally fairly easy but a few tricky ones.

	angularity:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 22:34 GMT		2 points
	Thanks DRB. Hong Kong duly corrected!

	urban_nomad:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 14:45 GMT		1 point
	fun quiz

	defoeginola:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 09:19 GMT		2 points
	Basically, this quiz is 'think of a well-known city in each named country'

	pottedstu:	Dec 18th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT		2 points
	Nice. It would be interesting to see this for somewhere like Gatwick that gets a lot of charter flights and budget airlines. The destinations might be very different.

	megarockman:	Jan 4th, 2010 at 17:32 GMT		6 points
	Would it be possible to accept airport codes (i.e. JFK, ORD)? As for sprucing it up, maybe if data can be found put number of flights or passengers to/from each airport as a bonus?

	elnok:	Mar 5th, 2010 at 13:36 GMT		4 points
	It actually might be harder if you took out the countries and replaced them with the airport codes (not so hard) or the direction and distance (much harder). Otherwise, maybe just cut a minute out, since the vast majority of answers have 75%+ success rates.

	WCRoentgen:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 13:53 GMT		0 points
	I think this a great idea. It would be more fun if you took out the country names.

	angularity:	May 14th, 2011 at 17:03 GMT		1 point
	Amended to accept airport codes now. Also, for pottedsu, I've added a Gatwick game - the top 50 destinations, but made it different, dropping countries and providing airport codes only with which to guess the answers http://www.sporcle.com/games/angularity/top-50-busiest-routes-from-london-gatwick-airport

	kraikk:	May 15th, 2011 at 10:40 GMT		1 point
	What's the source for this? I believe there are no flights from LHR to SYD. Also there is a typo, "DubaiDXB" is accepted and "dubai" and "dxb" are not. Other than that great quiz.

	angularity:	May 15th, 2011 at 20:24 GMT		1 point
	Source is the Civil Aviation Authority route statistics. There are no non-stop flights to Sydney, right enough, due to the distance involved, but the quoted statistics relate to passengers travelling on 'one stop' services (usually via Bangkok, Singapore or Hong Kong). LHR-SYD is therefore considered direct, even though it's not non-stop. Apologies for the DXB error, this has now been corrected.

	pator:	May 25th, 2011 at 12:05 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz, but the countries shouldn't be given- makes it far too easy.

	srobert:	Jan 27th, 2012 at 01:42 GMT		2 points
	As an American trying to think of airports in the UK, I instinctively typed "Gatwick". Woops.

	Brizza:	Jan 28th, 2012 at 20:26 GMT		3 points
	Accepting the airport codes is quite a pain actually, I lost count of the amount of times I typed in a city name and it accepted the first 3 letters as an airport code, so I then had to go back and delete the rest of the city name. I understand it's cool from an airport geekery POV, but in practical terms it's a bit annoying.

	angularity:	Feb 18th, 2012 at 18:34 GMT		1 point
	It's a difficult call, Briza. Damned if I do and damned if I don't! The airport guys like them in, but I can see the argument the other way too. Thanks for playing!