Editing Transatlantic flight (section)

===London to New York===
[[File:British_Airways_aircraft_at_JFK.jpg | thumb | right | alt=British Airways aircraft at JFK | British Airways aircraft at JFK]]
The '''London to New York Air Route''' is an [[air route]] between [[London]], UK, and [[New York City|New York]], US. These two cities are connected by a heavily utilised {{convert|2,999|nmi|mi km|adj=on}} 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|JetBlue Airways]]: [[United Airlines]] flies out of the nearby airport of [[Newark Liberty International Airport|Newark]], {{convert|9|miles|km|disp=sqbr}} away from downtown [[Manhattan]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=lhr-jfk&DU=nm&DM=&SG=&SU=mph |title=Great Circle Mapper |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.heathrow.com/flight-timetable |title=Flight timetable |access-date=16 February 2020|publisher=Heathrow Airport Limited|location=London}}</ref> The airports of [[London Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]] and [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]] are the main international airports for the [[London metropolitan area]] and [[New York metropolitan area]] respectively, the world's two most important [[Global city|global cities]].<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.kearney.com/global-cities/2019 |title=2019 Global Cities Report |access-date=16 February 2020|publisher=[[Kearney (consulting firm)|Kearney]]|location=[[Chicago]]}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.anna.aero/2015/08/26/top-15-routes-relation-capacity-asks-frequency-revealed/ |title=Top 15 routes in relation to capacity, ASKs and frequency revealed |date=26 August 2015 |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref> In 2018 [[British Airways]] achieved a revenue of $1.16 billion on this route alone, making their operation the highest value airline route globally.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/08/13/most-profitable-airline-routes/#35775d616963 |title=The $1 Billion Prize: The World's 10 Most Lucrative Airline Routes |last=Dudley|first=Dominic|magazine=[[Forbes]]|location=[[Dubai]]|access-date=16 February 2020|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The route saw a total traffic figure in 2018 of 3,034,155 (+3.0% on 2017), the busiest of any transatlantic air route.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airports/Datasets/UK-Airport-data/Airport-data-2018/ |title=Airport data 2018 |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority|location=London|access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/283755/europes-busiest-international-passenger-routes-revealed/ |title=Europe's busiest international passenger routes revealed |last=Casey|first=David|work=Routes|location=London|publisher=Informa|access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>

Prior to the aircraft's retirement British Airways operated a double daily supersonic [[Concorde]] service on the route which covered the {{cvt|2999|nmi|mi km}} distance in a scheduled time of 3 hours 15 minutes westbound and just under 3 hours eastbound.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/4874-complete-list-of-concorde-scheduled-flights/ |title=Complete List Of Concorde Scheduled Flights |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=29 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929130636/https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/4874-complete-list-of-concorde-scheduled-flights/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Passenger statistics====
Below is a table of passenger numbers flying between Heathrow and JFK by year as published by the UK CAA.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airports/Datasets/UK-Airport-data/Airport-data-2015/ |title=Airport data |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority|location=London|access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
Passenger Statistics Between JFK and LHR
!Year
!Total
Passengers
!Annual Change
!Passenger

Kilometers

(Billions)
|-
|2023
|3,073,200
|{{increase}} 29.5%
|
|-
|2022
|2,373,529
|{{increase}} 285.6%
|
|-
|2021
|615,543
|{{decrease}} 6.6%
|
|-
|2020
|659,182
|{{decrease}} 79.4%
|
|-
|2019
|3,192,195
|{{increase}} 5.2%
|17,730
|-
|2018
|3,034,155
|{{increase}} 3.0%
|16.852
|-
|2017
|2,945,744
|{{increase}} 0.4%
|16.361
|-
|2016
|2,934,554
|{{decrease}} 3.8%
|16.299
|-
|2015
|3,050,499
|{{increase}} 2.6%
|16.942
|-
|2014
|2,972,729
|{{decrease}} 1.4%
|16.511
|-
|2013
|3,015,218
|{{increase}} 6.2%
|16.747
|-
|2012
|2,839,007
|{{increase}} 6.0%
|15.768
|-
|2011
|2,678,991
|{{increase}} 6.4%
|14.879
|-
|2010
|2,517,896
|{{increase}} 1.6%
|13.984
|-
|2009
|2,478,722
|{{decrease}} 11.6%
|13.767
|-
|2008
|2,802,870
|{{decrease}} 1.3%
|15.567
|-
|2007
|2,839,221
|{{increase}} 3.2%
|15.769
|-
|2006
|2,751,835
| -
|15.284
|}

====Records====
The fastest crewed flight on this route is 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds, achieved by an eastbound [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird]] on 1 September 1974. The flight departed from [[Beale Air Force Base]], California and landed at [[Farnborough International Airshow]], crossing virtual radar gates over New York and London to spare them from sonic booms. The flight required three aerial refuels with [[Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker|KC-135Q Stratotankers]] after takeoff, over South Carolina, and south of Greenland.<ref name="b790">{{cite web |date=1974-09-01 |title=Inside SR-71 record flight: New York-London in under 2 hours |url=https://www.key.aero/article/inside-sr-71-record-flight-new-york-london-under-2-hours |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Key Aero}}</ref>

The fastest time for an airliner on the route is 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds, this was achieved on an eastbound [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]]-[[Heathrow Airport|LHR]] Concorde service on 7 February 1996.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/norwegian-breaks-transatlantic-speed-record/ |title=BA loses transatlantic time record to Norwegian thanks to ferocious jet stream |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=London|date=18 January 2018 |access-date=16 February 2020|last1=Morris |first1=Hugh |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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 18:47 [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard time]] (23:47 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] on 8 February) on 8 February and landed at Heathrow at 04:43 [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]/UTC on 9 February. The maximum recorded groundspeed was {{convert|625|mph|kn km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/storm-ciara-flight-record-new-york-london-time-atlantic-winds-british-airways-a9325396.html |title=British Airways records fastest ever New York-London flight at more than 800mph |work=[[The Independent]] |location=[[London]]|last=Embury-Dennis|first=Tom|date=9 February 2020 |access-date=16 February 2020|url-access=limited}}</ref>