@@JosephLycettCycling I m no Labour voter but youre wrong, this lot are the worst, most incompetent government we ve ever had, ever, so Labour under Starmer would do better, thats not saying much - a turd on a stick could do better than Johnson and his band of inept, lying English nationalists.
@@JosephLycettCycling Literally a small dog with brain damage would've done a better job. Having no government would've been better, so yes I think they probably would have.
My dad works in the aviation industry and it’s really incredible how well Heathrow operates even with just two runways, they’ve got all this fancy technology and staff dedicated to ordering planes perfectly so that they can reduce minimum times between landings. It’s quite incredible already, and there’s plans to change the system to operate as effectively a twin-single runway system to increase the capacity just a little bit extra.
"why are you here? I don't even make any videos." well you see you profile picture is a Rubik's cube so I thought I found another cuber on a random video on the internet
Thinking about it, this could genuinely work. Use above ground runways for landing and underground runways with ramps above ground at the end for lift off. There might be some safety implications being in a tunnel but if it's big and developed enough it could be a great idea.
it's the same as people making houses close to an highway and then later complain about the noise as the traffic increases on the highway... it comes economic positives of being that close to an "transport hub" but as with everything in life, if a house to almost to good at the front the back garden is always rubbish.
Some people can't afford to live anywhere else because they've already payed off all their mortgage, especially as house prices have sky rocketed since the village was built, plus it would mean potentially having to leave London just to find a decent living area. But then again why not just build one in the reservoir? That way we only have animals to move rather than angry SJW's.
I quite agree. Of the many series Jay's done, this one's been particularly interesting. I do hope he comes back to this at some point. There's bound to be so many more stories of London expansion plans that never came to be. For instance, wasn't there a scheme back in the 19th Century to build a colossal central railway station in the middle of London where all incoming trains could meet in the same place rather than at 19 different termini scattered all over?
This genuinely happened to me a while back: Got to Gatwick on an overnight flight from America and we had to wait for the plane steps to be moved away from the gate. Only in Britain.
This is the inverse for the phrase " up to.." As evinced in the advertising for the course in LLap Goch (the Welsh art of self defence)... From their advertising bumf.. Llap Goch will help you to:- DEVELOP UP TO 38" BICEPS GROW UP TO 12" TALLER LOSE UP TO 40" OF FAT IN YOUR FIRST WORK-OUT! PROLONG YOUR LIFE BY UP TO 1,000 YEARS GO TO BED WITH UP TO ANY LUDICROUS NUMBER OF GIRLS YOU CARE TO THINK OF PROVIDING YOU REALIZE THIS STATEMENT IS QUITE MEANINGLESS AS THE PHRASE "UP TO" CLEARLY INCLUDES THE NUMBER "NOUGHT".
I am very impressed with that shot at 7:51. You had just one take to get it right before the ship passed, and you nailed it. More impressively, you managed to resist finishing your martini while waiting for the ship. 8:56 Wiser words were never spoken.
That's true... Hamburg Airport also was when I was there last time (last saturday) emptier than Kassel Airport (where no planes start from)... during holiday season.
In case anyone was wondering, the commision in Parliament mentioned in this video decided to add a third runway to Heathrow with a legally binding limit on noise, time restraints, and a promise to never build a 4th runway
Except, unsurprisingly, the government's response was to procrastinate further. The fact that many of their MPs have constituencies under the flight paths to Heathrow is probably mere coincidence... (yeah, right, sure, as if...)
Indeed. As soon as a new government comes in they'll change their mind and say "ah that was a promise of the last lot, not binding now". Happens all the time.
to clarify: Heathrow was at the time the busiest airport by international traffic (Dubai has since passed it), but it's not the busiest by total passengers. That'd be Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, which pulls over 100 million passengers per year -- 20 million more than Heathrow. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe though. Hartsfield-Jackson is fuckin massive, btw. It has 5 runways, spills out of the original unincorperated area into 3 different cities, has been the busiest since 1998 and had the most planes take off since 2005 (except 2014 weirdly), and has the largest single airline hub (Delta accounts for 75% of its traffic).
@@dstblj5222 DFW and SLC are their other big 'uns. Those at least are in the right direction. That whole trip was a disaster but I can only blame Delta for part of it.
@@duckrutt I think you mean DTW not DFW right? delta has not operated a hub at DFW for a long time, but yeah their IRROPs was really bad until not that long ago but this year it looks like they will not have cancelled a single flight on mainline and regional on 150 calendar days
@@dstblj5222 It was DFW in 1991. Apparently I haven't kept up on my Airliners in a while... The whole story is long, stupid and mostly uninteresting unless you were there so I'll give you only what happened in ATL. In the flight line, electrical problem, back to the terminal. In the flight line, mechanic left tools onboard, ladder truck. Still in the flight line, assumed brake issue (Not a brake issue it sank into the tarmac) back to the terminal. Eventually take off, stop in California (I don't remember the airport) they don't trust the plane over water so everyone is transferred to United.
Every time I hear that all I can think is Stansted and Luton's baggage retrieval systems are so so so much worse! I've waited over an hour at both for checked luggage to get off the plane!
Seriously? Is that the latest wildly exaggerated figure that the scaremongers have come out with? I know construction costs have got a habit of going up, but I don't believe they can have virtually quadrupled!
Narita isn’t built on reclaimed land and it has a really contentious relationship with the neighbors. The government didn’t consult residents prior to picking the site. Cold War politics, student activists, left wing political parties and local residents fought the airport hard. Protesters actually occupied and built a tower on land meant to be used for the runway. Protesters delayed the opening by busting into the control tower and destroying equipment. The whole thing was a mess and that actually *why* Japan started using land reclamation with KIX.
Yep it’s a common mistake. As a matter of fact, When Osaka was looking for a location for their new airport that is Kansai, it was going to be on standard earth soil but after the cancel Narita airport protests, they decided to put it offshore like Haneda. Numerous airports followed this design style, including Kobe, a small regional airport at the other end of the bay Kansai sits on and is not mentioned in this video.
@@0ne-6right40 And now they have +/- 2mm sink rate.... I have suggestion, we take HS2 route, find field big enough to put 8-10 runways, make them commute by HS2
@@mateuszzimon8216 If only. Just the railway itself was so much for the locals to bear they had to bury half the line underground so the locals wouldn't have to see a train. A shame, because it'd almost certainly be worth it if we could close down some other airports together with it. East West rail (and various new road projects following a similar route), for example, would allow people to get to such an airport without going through London, perhaps allowing Luton and Stansted to go. At least in theory.
5:14 One, wait no, Two corrections: 1. Narita isn't on reclaimed land, it was built inland far from the city center. The one you were talking about is probably Haneda, where land was reclaimed next to the city center. 2. The order you said was Kansai, Narita (Actually Haneda), Chubu, Nagasaki, but the images are actually Haneda, Kansai, Chubu, and presumably Nagasaki (Idk how Nagasaki Airport looks like, never been there)
Chicago Midway International Airport finds itself in a much similar predicament to London Heathrow. Despite having more runways than Heathrow does currently, they have the disadvantage of being noticeably short, leading to rougher landings and steeper takeoffs. However, these problems would largely become irrelevant by around the 1960s, when Chicago O’Hare became the city’s main airport, due to its larger size and capacity. Midway nowadays operates as the secondary airport of the city, mainly serving as a hub for Southwest Airlines.
That may be slightly impressive. Less impressive is mixing up Osaka's Kansai airport with Tokyo's Narita - although, he actually meant Tokyo Haneda, which was the airport shows as Kansai. Narita is very much a landlocked airport. Tokyo Haneda was the airport shown as Kansai. Some small, but undercutting, factual mistakes there. Heathrow is also not the busiest airport in the world - that's very misleading. It is the, or one of the, busiest airports as measured by international arrivals and departures, and it is one of the busiest airports in the world.
1:38 i landed at Schipol once and was utterly confused by the 10minutes it took to taxi to the terminal from the runway, across fields and over a motorway... Looking at the location of runway 6 it now all makes sense 😂
If you want to do something controversial that nobody wants you propose a plan that is ridiculously over the top, ei lets tear down this village. Then you “compromise” by proposing what you wanted to do in the first place.
that village should go though open up google maps and look at it you have north to south around it west Drayton a London suburb, the M4 a wired green area that sticks in to London and contains 2/3 small hamlets, and airport, a London suburb called Stanwell It almost as thou we as a society left that area green in the hopes of expanding Heathrow
That's diplomacy 101 willsham, double your demands and then compromise by 50% - you get exactly what was required in the first place and your opposition gets to save face with their public.
Haha! Funny enough this sociological technique can be applied to pretty much any situation. You want something from someone, then ask for an 'outrageous' favour first, to then compromise it with what you actually want. It's been documented that statistically in this way, a person is more inclined to actually help. :)
This is kind of similar to what happened at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport. They bought the land from Peel, but then Peel bought the land AROUND the airport so if they wanted to expand they had to pay Peel a crap load of money. In the end Peel bough the airport.
Japan started building new airports on reclaimed lands after the construction of Narita Airport, since the Japanese government decided to build the airport in Narita without the involvement or consent of most residents. This caused the "Sanrizuka Struggle ", which involves a series of demonstrations and physical clashes. Also, the first two aerial airport photos shown at 5:15 should be Haneda and Kansai respectively.
Jay has shaped my sense of humour, his comedy-documentary style is so informative yet hilarious. The government should make the days Jay uploads a national holiday 😂
1:52 - It gets especially obvious when comparing Heathrow to something like O'Hare, which has about the same number of emplanements per year, but has _seven_ runways, with an eighth under construction (including a set of five, soon to be six, east-west parallel runways).
2:53 "Just like with our trains and our sport, we got there first and now we're the worst". This quote alone was enough for me to hit 'like' on this video
I live in Hounslow and people hardly notice the planes flying low overhead, many of us are used to it. In fact i'm proud that I live close to Heathrow Airport, It's something to admire seeing a plane flying low and provides employment in the area.
Im from Stanwell a village south of the airport and I agree with that we dont really notice the planes, the only irritable this is the early morning whistle of the engines starting up it just causes a hum in the morning and I notice that every time
Till one falls on your head or explodes and showers you in aircraft parts...seriously, I've been near airports and I couldn't live there (hell, I've lived next to train-tracks (and not really busy ones even!) and I hated the racket!
hockeycrafter608 umm I’m not to sure it’s thrown around in the commons here and there but doesn’t get any major debate it’s more about a bridge from Northern Ireland to mainland Uk now
emerson kurtzman he’s in ICU in hospital now. Maybe Heathrow can be turned into a giant hospital for future pandemics plus an enormous cemetery next to it.
5:13 Ok let's get it this straight ladies and gentlemen. The first one is Haneda Airport and the second one is Kansai. Narita Airport is actually located inland and nobody actually realized that it's not in Tokyo (technically an hour half from Tokyo). Haneda on the other hand is actually located in Tokyo but no one actually realized that it's on an island because its actually very close to land.
But I think the one strip Doha airport supposed to reopen next year for the FIFA or Eurocup. It will be used to supplement Hamad. After that, the two airports might finally merge.
Unfortunately, dear old Boris has a bit of that recent C19 that's been going around lately, provided that he would still be around in the near future, he'll be a bit of a busybee going around with C19, Brexit and whatever menaces spawn from the rest of US. I'll put it on a 50/50 chance
@@russcattell955i I just have to make a comment just for historical documentation. Who knows how Boris rolling out of the ICU will make it more or less likely for a Boris Island.
@@_aataNi It's not really a particular song, it's every happy hardcore/gabber music song you can think of. This for example th-cam.com/video/0pBmuinFxTU/w-d-xo.html
Who came first, Heathrow Airport or the people who live nearby? If the latter, then they simply cannot complain about the noise, as there are SO many other places to live in the world. Also, the whole country depending on a single city is so stupid.
That argument sounds sensible, but doesn't really hold up. Firstly, realistically, we aren't talking the world, we're talking the city, because that's where your friends family and job are likely to be. But more importantly, nicer areas cost more money to live in. People have to settle to live somewhere they can afford. Just because they knew it would be a problem doesn't mean they can't wish it wasn't.
How many times have I thought that in pubs where the neighbours complain, it's like moving next door to Alton Towers and complaining about all the ambulances.
I live near the London-Southend Airport. So close in fact that my street was cut in half when they extended the runway. I don’t really notice the noise, even though I work nights, so have to sleep when there are planes landing and taking off. The only problem I have is that even though it’s been 7 years since it opened (8 since they cut my street in half) GPS still hasn’t updated yet. This means that if I’m waiting for a delivery and the driver’s not from the area, their GPS takes them to the wrong half of street. The half to the south of the runway is residential and the other side is all industrial, so it confuses the hell out of drivers looking for my house and all they can find is warehouse, so they end up calling me for directions. I’m so used to it that if I’m expecting a delivery, and the phone rings, I know what’s happened and give them directions before they even say what’s happened.
I'm not a nationalist or a patriot, and I have no liking for hardstyle music. But playing hardstyle over the Schiphol Airport bit while Charles de Gaulle and Barajas were characterized by stereotypical french and Spanish folk tunes is just a stroke of genius, and a perfect jab at the unconventional Dutch national character.
Probably meant £100 Billion, because regarding the Heathrow expansion plan: "The plan involves building a new 3,500m runway about two miles north of the two runways Heathrow already has at an estimated cost of £18.6bn".
It's one of my standard lines as well: "At least (insert ludicrously low number here)", or "Somewhere between (ludicrously low number) and (just as ludicrously high number)".
7:39 After this video was made, Gatwick built a tiny runway north of the main one. Mainly used by smaller regional jets and large jets if the main one is blocked.
6:07 This is why there are so many issues today with modern infrastructure. The average citizen doesn't want o plan ahead for future generations, or even as little ahead as for their own children. They demand immediate results for themselves and that leads to rushed and sloppy construction, or no construction at all
@@zJoriz It won't. Trust me, it won't. We haven't even seen the economical implications of the virus. If those don't lead to WW3, we've hit jackpot already.
as a dutch person i can say, it’s really amusing to hear a british person pronounce Schiphol while hearing “Gabber” (basically dutch hardcore music) music on the background
@@Harith01x I wonder. With the range of smaller 2 engine aircraft increasing (and ETOPS) point to point is becoming more popular at the expense of hub and spoke. So less stepping over from one plane to the other. Sales of big 4 engine aircraft is already plummeting.. This means less flights for Heatrow, limited to those who´s final destination is London city. And small aircraft are able to land on local fields as well. I also expect CO2 taxes shortly, decreasing flights further. (Or at least compensating for population growth.) Schiphol is also mainly a hub. And although it wants to increase the number of flights, even using Lelystad as a secondary airport, I feel expansion is premature in this rapidly changing landscape. We´ll see :)
Hong Kong airport and all accessories are built on reclaimed land so there's little to none demolition works / land purchases. And POLITICS forces the project to be completed in just 7 years for fear the Chinese takeover would halt it altogether. Back in LHR, if someone files a lawsuit in Sipson the project is pretty much screwed. And can Brexit provide the political urgency comparable to that of Hong Kong for the project to be completed in such a short time?
"Tory mayor of London, Boris Johnson" wow that's a throwback.
why is your icon pyro tf2
@@jankkhvej434 why does yours look like the tf2 logo? 😂
I know, remember the days when he only had the power to ruin one city instead of a whole country?
Prime Minister*
Seems so quaint. The Alaistair McGowan shoutout really took me back.
This man is like chaotic tom scott
Perfect analogy
He Looks like Hayley Cropper 🤦♂️
He worked with Tom Scott before.
chaotic neutral
They seem to be friends. They appear in each other's videos, though Jay replied to one of my comments about it and denied it.
The Boris impression hit differently in December 2020
Still accurate, though
@@doxielain2231 Yeah, hes stil an incomprehensible, incompetent, lying ****. Only by December 2020 his incompetence had killed thousands.
@@JosephLycettCycling I m no Labour voter but youre wrong, this lot are the worst, most incompetent government we ve ever had, ever, so Labour under Starmer would do better, thats not saying much - a turd on a stick could do better than Johnson and his band of inept, lying English nationalists.
@@JosephLycettCycling Literally a small dog with brain damage would've done a better job. Having no government would've been better, so yes I think they probably would have.
Just be thankful you don't live in the US where our fake-yellow-haired idiot killed half a million
My dad works in the aviation industry and it’s really incredible how well Heathrow operates even with just two runways, they’ve got all this fancy technology and staff dedicated to ordering planes perfectly so that they can reduce minimum times between landings. It’s quite incredible already, and there’s plans to change the system to operate as effectively a twin-single runway system to increase the capacity just a little bit extra.
What is this "twin single runway" system?
I think one dedicated runway for takeoffs and landing each works better than two combined RWYs
@@michmart9261 Indeed, exactly.
2:54 "We got there first, and now we're the worst"
I love this man
"why are you here? I don't even make any videos." well you see you profile picture is a Rubik's cube so I thought I found another cuber on a random video on the internet
We Dutch have a phrase for this; De wet van de remmende voorsprong". The law of the constricting head start.
you truele deserve some sleep between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. and then sonic boom!!!!!!!
Gayyyyyyyyy
@@abduls9289 have you said to me or what? i did not say i love this man!
“It could cost more than a 100,000 pounds!” Well, he isn’t wrong
lol the way he said could
it *COULD* cost £77777
At this rate we'll have to sell another cello
@@andrewthompson9714 😂😂😂
100000 pounds, lol in america this would cost billions
@OutFoxingFoxysOrder Expansion is about £40 billion
It's obvious, just build it underground like they did with the railway.
You are smart
I am actually all for that. Make all terminals underground and make a third runway in the middle of the two already existing ones.
This guy is beyond intelligence
I was kind of hoping for him to say 'Build a runway on top!' Sounds like something they would say
Thinking about it, this could genuinely work. Use above ground runways for landing and underground runways with ramps above ground at the end for lift off. There might be some safety implications being in a tunnel but if it's big and developed enough it could be a great idea.
Imagine your walking home and you just see some guy shouting SHUT UP at the sky.
Several people did. And this took several attempts.
XD
it always amazes me how people can move next to an ariport and then start to be annoyed by the noise
ilRegulator people have a profound capacity for stupid
it's the same as people making houses close to an highway and then later complain about the noise as the traffic increases on the highway...
it comes economic positives of being that close to an "transport hub" but as with everything in life, if a house to almost to good at the front the back garden is always rubbish.
Some people even buy a house in the country, then complain of the noises of the farm animals.
Mikey Aurelius H people are stupid no matter where you go. I live near an airport and love it. Airplanes fly low over my apartment complex.
Some people can't afford to live anywhere else because they've already payed off all their mortgage, especially as house prices have sky rocketed since the village was built, plus it would mean potentially having to leave London just to find a decent living area. But then again why not just build one in the reservoir? That way we only have animals to move rather than angry SJW's.
Such a shame you didn't make any more of this show, just come across them today, they're awesome!
make more of films yanks can't walk plz
fdsdh1
ive written a couple, so theyll be coming up soon!
It's a mark on your character that I totally read your comment in your voice.
I quite agree. Of the many series Jay's done, this one's been particularly interesting. I do hope he comes back to this at some point. There's bound to be so many more stories of London expansion plans that never came to be. For instance, wasn't there a scheme back in the 19th Century to build a colossal central railway station in the middle of London where all incoming trains could meet in the same place rather than at 19 different termini scattered all over?
At least they won't need to expand Heathrow now with London losing at least half of it's high end business due to brexit.
A win-win I guess?
You know it's a BRITISH airport if even the planes have to queue
all planes are always queueing have u been to dubai airport? it takes 30 minutes to get on the runway
Underrated comment : )
This genuinely happened to me a while back: Got to Gatwick on an overnight flight from America and we had to wait for the plane steps to be moved away from the gate. Only in Britain.
@@ae4042 its it's a joke about the British
Where you from dude? I bet your a smelly foreigner
I just realised this is the first time Mark appeared in a Jay Foreman video, at 7:15
And thus, history was created in map men
He is also one of the people to comment in that part
I seem to be 7 years too late...but did anything actually change with Heathrow? Or is it still the same today?
Nothing has changed. The “official” decision is for Heathrow to expand, but there is still so much opposition, that it’s still in doubt.
@@JayForeman thanks for the reply!
@@JayForeman hi
tnx for asking the question, this vid came up in recommended and i was also curious
@@JayForeman lol thanks for answering
6:13
"More than a hundred thousand pounds"
Hahahahaha
Googled Pounds to CAD for a double take. I took out a loan, boutta save the uk's economy
I mean hes not wrong
It will cost at least 12 pounds
Technically accurate!
This is the inverse for the phrase " up to.." As evinced in the advertising for the course in LLap Goch (the Welsh art of self defence)... From their advertising bumf..
Llap Goch will help you to:-
DEVELOP UP TO 38" BICEPS
GROW UP TO 12" TALLER
LOSE UP TO 40" OF FAT IN YOUR FIRST WORK-OUT!
PROLONG YOUR LIFE BY UP TO 1,000 YEARS
GO TO BED WITH UP TO ANY LUDICROUS NUMBER OF GIRLS YOU CARE TO THINK OF PROVIDING YOU REALIZE THIS STATEMENT IS QUITE MEANINGLESS AS THE PHRASE "UP TO" CLEARLY INCLUDES THE NUMBER "NOUGHT".
Nice that Boris made the time to take part in person.
i hate that fat slug boris
I am very impressed with that shot at 7:51. You had just one take to get it right before the ship passed, and you nailed it. More impressively, you managed to resist finishing your martini while waiting for the ship.
8:56 Wiser words were never spoken.
I never realised the geography teacher at 7:12 is just mark cooper-jones
WOW! He does map men! I never noticed that!
I know right
@internet person MEN
@@herbwacho8124MEN MAP MEN MAP MEN MEN MEN MAP MAP
Solution: just start a pandemic and nobody will fly anyway.
Corona?
Yes.
That's true... Hamburg Airport also was when I was there last time (last saturday) emptier than Kassel Airport (where no planes start from)... during holiday season.
Not true PPE deliveries will be needed
Yeah, like we know when that will happen
In case anyone was wondering, the commision in Parliament mentioned in this video decided to add a third runway to Heathrow with a legally binding limit on noise, time restraints, and a promise to never build a 4th runway
Thank you! You saved me a Google search.
(honest!)
Except, unsurprisingly, the government's response was to procrastinate further.
The fact that many of their MPs have constituencies under the flight paths to Heathrow is probably mere coincidence... (yeah, right, sure, as if...)
Go to Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) and see what those promises are worth. Been there, done that....
Indeed. As soon as a new government comes in they'll change their mind and say "ah that was a promise of the last lot, not binding now". Happens all the time.
Man, never knew this channel was so huge. Can't believe they could get big man Boris on for an interview.
It was the cake.
to clarify: Heathrow was at the time the busiest airport by international traffic (Dubai has since passed it), but it's not the busiest by total passengers. That'd be Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, which pulls over 100 million passengers per year -- 20 million more than Heathrow. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe though.
Hartsfield-Jackson is fuckin massive, btw. It has 5 runways, spills out of the original unincorperated area into 3 different cities, has been the busiest since 1998 and had the most planes take off since 2005 (except 2014 weirdly), and has the largest single airline hub (Delta accounts for 75% of its traffic).
Ah Delta. Chicago to Atlanta to Hawaii. Because Atlanta is totally on the way so you may as well stop by.
It's their super hub which they will route you threw if their is not a better option, and it does have flights to nearly everywhere
@@dstblj5222 DFW and SLC are their other big 'uns. Those at least are in the right direction. That whole trip was a disaster but I can only blame Delta for part of it.
@@duckrutt I think you mean DTW not DFW right? delta has not operated a hub at DFW for a long time, but yeah their IRROPs was really bad until not that long ago but this year it looks like they will not have cancelled a single flight on mainline and regional on 150 calendar days
@@dstblj5222 It was DFW in 1991. Apparently I haven't kept up on my Airliners in a while...
The whole story is long, stupid and mostly uninteresting unless you were there so I'll give you only what happened in ATL.
In the flight line, electrical problem, back to the terminal.
In the flight line, mechanic left tools onboard, ladder truck.
Still in the flight line, assumed brake issue (Not a brake issue it sank into the tarmac) back to the terminal.
Eventually take off, stop in California (I don't remember the airport) they don't trust the plane over water so everyone is transferred to United.
Im so worried about the baggage retrieval system theyve got at heathrow
Steve Damian damn this got hearted, mad
In a similar vein, I like traffic lights.
You're a very naughty boy!
And I'm so worried about the shows on TV
That sometimes they want to repeat.
Every time I hear that all I can think is Stansted and Luton's baggage retrieval systems are so so so much worse! I've waited over an hour at both for checked luggage to get off the plane!
Someone should commission Jay to do an 'Unfinished Britain' series!
rich3500 I disagree! *runs away giggling*
Seriously? Is that the latest wildly exaggerated figure that the scaremongers have come out with? I know construction costs have got a habit of going up, but I don't believe they can have virtually quadrupled!
maybe that's where the leave campaign wanted to put the £350 million
Episode 1: The unconquered world
I love the gabberhouse sample when you mentioned Schiphol.
More than £100000. I guess that is technically true.
Anything under a mil is a steal and a no-brainer.
This is one of the reasons NYC is the financial capital of the world, we give proper estimates
Eric Williamson what
m1ksu we don't give a low ball estimate, only for it to be shattered. We give a high ball, only for it to not be reached
Eric Williamson Have you heard of something called "jokes"?
1:25 - Frankfurt´s missing.
P.S.: Heathrow was built in the past. -> Past tense: Heathrew
No
That's quite the underrated joke you've got there.
Im officially flying to Stansted from now on
Narita isn’t built on reclaimed land and it has a really contentious relationship with the neighbors. The government didn’t consult residents prior to picking the site. Cold War politics, student activists, left wing political parties and local residents fought the airport hard. Protesters actually occupied and built a tower on land meant to be used for the runway. Protesters delayed the opening by busting into the control tower and destroying equipment. The whole thing was a mess and that actually *why* Japan started using land reclamation with KIX.
I think he confused Narita with Haneda. I mentioned it months ago in a post
Yea, actually the airports he showed were, in order: Haneda, Kansai, Chubu and Nagasaki.
Yep it’s a common mistake. As a matter of fact, When Osaka was looking for a location for their new airport that is Kansai, it was going to be on standard earth soil but after the cancel Narita airport protests, they decided to put it offshore like Haneda. Numerous airports followed this design style, including Kobe, a small regional airport at the other end of the bay Kansai sits on and is not mentioned in this video.
@@0ne-6right40 And now they have +/- 2mm sink rate....
I have suggestion, we take HS2 route, find field big enough to put 8-10 runways, make them commute by HS2
@@mateuszzimon8216 If only. Just the railway itself was so much for the locals to bear they had to bury half the line underground so the locals wouldn't have to see a train. A shame, because it'd almost certainly be worth it if we could close down some other airports together with it. East West rail (and various new road projects following a similar route), for example, would allow people to get to such an airport without going through London, perhaps allowing Luton and Stansted to go. At least in theory.
5:14 One, wait no, Two corrections:
1. Narita isn't on reclaimed land, it was built inland far from the city center. The one you were talking about is probably Haneda, where land was reclaimed next to the city center.
2. The order you said was Kansai, Narita (Actually Haneda), Chubu, Nagasaki, but the images are actually Haneda, Kansai, Chubu, and presumably Nagasaki (Idk how Nagasaki Airport looks like, never been there)
This portrayal of Boris Johnson has aged perfectly
I was very taken by surprise by it
Yeah, what an absolutely bumbling idiot. Serously, does his mom cut his hair. He looks so fucking stupid.
Pilot : **flying plane**
Jay : SHUT UP
Pilot : ok **turns off engine**
Everyone on British Airways 38:
@@The-Mov 😳
And then crashes in the background 😂
@@The-Mov lmao
isnt there still a wind sound
"Boris island like many things named after him wasn't actually his idea" mate, thanks. You've made my night lol
Емиля Чернова and in the section after he mixed up Kansai and narita
Love that Jay's standing in front of a row of Boris bikes as he delivers that line.
Slams fist “Owwwww!” 😂….Not sure why that made me laugh so hard but it sure did! Your humour is just impeccably delightful!
Thanks for having captions for the Deaf. Enjoying history of London airports :)
Jim Willis Holy cats, even the captions have the obscured lines from the flyover lady & cake-eating Boris Johnson. That's funny!
You just made me realize that a Deaf community near an airport would be perfect
"Amsterdam sCHGCHGiphol" I have never heard anything this perfect and you caught me completely off-guard! Thanks!
I just love how Gabber is playing in the background XD
Over the top, yet quite accurate
Amsterdam I don’t how to say this but AMSTERDAM SCHsjsjdmdndmdmdmdjjd Airport
Clearly you have never heard Tom Scott et al call it "Amsterdam Shitpol Airport".
The green shirt on green screen had me rolling!
Chicago Midway International Airport finds itself in a much similar predicament to London Heathrow. Despite having more runways than Heathrow does currently, they have the disadvantage of being noticeably short, leading to rougher landings and steeper takeoffs. However, these problems would largely become irrelevant by around the 1960s, when Chicago O’Hare became the city’s main airport, due to its larger size and capacity. Midway nowadays operates as the secondary airport of the city, mainly serving as a hub for Southwest Airlines.
This series is woefully under appreciated.
***** Don't worry, I woefully over-appreciate it!
turns out they are building one in the village after all, hi from 2018 everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeeeeee!
Yeeeeeee!
Hi!!!!!
Morning!
Why? How stupid is this?
You actually pronounced Schiphol correctly. I'm impressed.
For a englishman to pronouns our dutch 'sch' sound like that was quite impressif.
Well, close anyway.
Thomas Joosten Am I following you again? Another coincidence!
Marcio Silva Yep
That may be slightly impressive. Less impressive is mixing up Osaka's Kansai airport with Tokyo's Narita - although, he actually meant Tokyo Haneda, which was the airport shows as Kansai. Narita is very much a landlocked airport. Tokyo Haneda was the airport shown as Kansai. Some small, but undercutting, factual mistakes there. Heathrow is also not the busiest airport in the world - that's very misleading. It is the, or one of the, busiest airports as measured by international arrivals and departures, and it is one of the busiest airports in the world.
1:38 i landed at Schipol once and was utterly confused by the 10minutes it took to taxi to the terminal from the runway, across fields and over a motorway... Looking at the location of runway 6 it now all makes sense 😂
Love how you used Gabber music for Schiphol
wow, looks like we finally have an answer, the third runway was officially approved today.
Really? Where?
@@Kinkylords Birmingham
Bahahahaha
Are there any airlines left to use it?
@@thomasyoung8896 They only one the right to apply for permission to build it. So another 20 years of planning battles ahead....
We don't need it now.
If you want to do something controversial that nobody wants
you propose a plan that is ridiculously over the top, ei lets tear down this
village. Then you “compromise” by proposing what you wanted to do in the first
place.
that village should go though open up google maps and look at it you have north to south around it west Drayton a London suburb, the M4 a wired green area that sticks in to London and contains 2/3 small hamlets, and airport, a London suburb called Stanwell
It almost as thou we as a society left that area green in the hopes of expanding Heathrow
That's diplomacy 101 willsham, double your demands and then compromise by 50% - you get exactly what was required in the first place and your opposition gets to save face with their public.
Haha! Funny enough this sociological technique can be applied to pretty much any situation. You want something from someone, then ask for an 'outrageous' favour first, to then compromise it with what you actually want. It's been documented that statistically in this way, a person is more inclined to actually help. :)
This is kind of similar to what happened at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport. They bought the land from Peel, but then Peel bought the land AROUND the airport so if they wanted to expand they had to pay Peel a crap load of money. In the end Peel bough the airport.
Should they rename it the John Peel airport?
04:31: The "Tory mayor of London Boris Johnson" impression really aged well 🤣😂🤣.
Japan started building new airports on reclaimed lands after the construction of Narita Airport, since the Japanese government decided to build the airport in Narita without the involvement or consent of most residents. This caused the "Sanrizuka Struggle
", which involves a series of demonstrations and physical clashes.
Also, the first two aerial airport photos shown at 5:15 should be Haneda and Kansai respectively.
Watching this a couple hour after Boris Johnson became PM is just... ugh 😑
we’re doomed ;-;
😂🙄😭😵
Doomed! I want a deal Brexit!
I like Boris. I think he will do a much better job then the last few prime ministers we have had. hopefully.
Boris Brexit
2:19 That moment when some bloke walks past your house, talking to himself, and in the middle of the sentence yells SHUT UP at the clouds above.
Jay has shaped my sense of humour, his comedy-documentary style is so informative yet hilarious. The government should make the days Jay uploads a national holiday 😂
1:38 As a Dutchman, I more than approve of the exaggerated "ch" attempt. :-D
R.I.P DUTCH
Ikr, it was surprisingly accurate
Do you also approve of the techno music in the background? ;-)
@@fl570 Gabber house even. Jay does his research!
s *CHCHCHCHCH* ipple
1:52 - It gets especially obvious when comparing Heathrow to something like O'Hare, which has about the same number of emplanements per year, but has _seven_ runways, with an eighth under construction (including a set of five, soon to be six, east-west parallel runways).
2:53 "Just like with our trains and our sport, we got there first and now we're the worst". This quote alone was enough for me to hit 'like' on this video
Seeing you (Jay) still reply to comments here is really neat. Hope your day is great.
I live in Hounslow and people hardly notice the planes flying low overhead, many of us are used to it. In fact i'm proud that I live close to Heathrow Airport, It's something to admire seeing a plane flying low and provides employment in the area.
Im from Stanwell a village south of the airport and I agree with that we dont really notice the planes, the only irritable this is the early morning whistle of the engines starting up it just causes a hum in the morning and I notice that every time
Till one falls on your head or explodes and showers you in aircraft parts...seriously, I've been near airports and I couldn't live there (hell, I've lived next to train-tracks (and not really busy ones even!) and I hated the racket!
@@dreamingflurry2729 do you know what the chances of being hit a plane are, especially 5 miles past its takeoff
@@dreamingflurry2729 perfectly in the dip of the bathtub graph for the likelihood of a plane crashing.
@@Varenikismetana It did happened once,I forgot the details completely but I remember one such case.
I’m watching this when Boris Johnson is Prime Minister
emerson kurtzman did Boris island ever get approved?
hockeycrafter608 umm I’m not to sure it’s thrown around in the commons here and there but doesn’t get any major debate it’s more about a bridge from Northern Ireland to mainland Uk now
emerson kurtzman he’s in ICU in hospital now. Maybe Heathrow can be turned into a giant hospital for future pandemics plus an enormous cemetery next to it.
The coffin dancing boys are waiting for Boris.
This truly is the darkest timeline
Why u move near a airport and then complain about how loud it is?
Yeah, the only people that should really be complaining are people that have lived there since Heathrow was created.
Because people think they have a god given right to have the price of their house increase for ever.
Maybe they had no choice as that was the only place housing was available?
FogYT it's cheap for a reason
Complaining is our national pastime. NIMBYs love to complain about everything. lol
10 years later… anything changed?
Nope!
5:13 Ok let's get it this straight ladies and gentlemen.
The first one is Haneda Airport and the second one is Kansai.
Narita Airport is actually located inland and nobody actually realized that it's not in Tokyo (technically an hour half from Tokyo). Haneda on the other hand is actually located in Tokyo but no one actually realized that it's on an island because its actually very close to land.
This is the fifth time I watch this... This is the fifth time I laughed tears about it...
1:47 Doha’s airport is actually one runway, the other two runways is another airport, Hamad international.
Hello
But I think the one strip Doha airport supposed to reopen next year for the FIFA or Eurocup. It will be used to supplement Hamad. After that, the two airports might finally merge.
@@0ne-6right40 doubt that there are highways and roads that separates the two airports
I actually love your videos so much Jay! They’re very funny and you make them really enjoyable at the same time :)!
Mayor Boris Johnson, 😭
If only he stayed as mayor.
Not bloody PRIME MINISTER.
I like Boris.
baq how would a sitting PM remove an elected mayor and how undemocratic would that be?
Would be better if he was neither...
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 I mean, he just suspended Parliament for the UK to quit the EU even without deal, what more undemocratic thing can he do now
Mikel Sopelana Durango scary times we live in
4:34 - Damn, this "Boris Johnson" character really reminds me of British prime minister Boris Johnson!!
Idk chief, the PM is a bit less legible than this chap!
cant be, the one in this video strikes me as a far more pleasant and genuine character
@@GuideTheNation holy shit LOL!!
Dunno, this one made more sense than the real thing does...
hmm, you pronounced Schiphol right, something English speakers are generally very bad at. Congratulations
Sccccchhhhggghggccchhiphol
Hahhha
Dutch can be the worst XD
@@tonyoldlock3303 nee hoor, heb je wel eens chinees geprobeerd?
(Translation:) Not true, have you ever tried chinese?
Yeah, sticking those two sounds together just doesn’t sit well on the Anglo tongue
1:36 Barajas also has the advantage of having a railroad system underneath.
When you watch this in 2020 and realise that Boris island could happen now because he is the prime minister 😂
Unfortunately, dear old Boris has a bit of that recent C19 that's been going around lately, provided that he would still be around in the near future, he'll be a bit of a busybee going around with C19, Brexit and whatever menaces spawn from the rest of US.
I'll put it on a 50/50 chance
156Rafi I know poor guy wish him all the best
No money for that scheme anymore.
@@russcattell955i I just have to make a comment just for historical documentation. Who knows how Boris rolling out of the ICU will make it more or less likely for a Boris Island.
It's really amazing how this became true and then even quicker became not true anymore.
You're hilarious man!!! That lady just said: " 🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Really nice video...LOL!!!!
6:30 One hundred thousand pounds? That's an unbelievably great price for an international airport!
No, it's OVER 100K pounds. He was making a joke.
SeraphimKnight Yeah, I realize that
Jay ranting about 4 runways being a lot has me cackling bc my local airport (O’Hare in Chicago) casually has 8 🤭
Previously on unfinished London:
Eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh
0:01
When I saw that I laughed so hard that I almost suffocated!
U missed an eh at the ehnd
@@alissonsv2 not me.
You forgot the pauses
oh wait...
12 ehs
1:38 as a Dutchie, I am impressed by your faultless and not at all over the top pronounciation XD
I love the way he pronounced SCHIPHOL! LMAO
Noah Visscher the correct way?
Yes, he is the first non-dutch person that translates it correctly.
I love your videos Jay, please keep making them!
As a Dutch guy, the music choice for Schiphol is just too funny :D
So cool he played our national anthem.
do you know the song? it sounds cool
@@_aataNi It's not really a particular song, it's every happy hardcore/gabber music song you can think of. This for example th-cam.com/video/0pBmuinFxTU/w-d-xo.html
Who came first, Heathrow Airport or the people who live nearby? If the latter, then they simply cannot complain about the noise, as there are SO many other places to live in the world. Also, the whole country depending on a single city is so stupid.
That argument sounds sensible, but doesn't really hold up. Firstly, realistically, we aren't talking the world, we're talking the city, because that's where your friends family and job are likely to be.
But more importantly, nicer areas cost more money to live in. People have to settle to live somewhere they can afford. Just because they knew it would be a problem doesn't mean they can't wish it wasn't.
But they can't complain about the CURRENT noise.
How many times have I thought that in pubs where the neighbours complain, it's like moving next door to Alton Towers and complaining about all the ambulances.
*your - it's bad enough seeing people CONSTANTLY getting it wrong the other way round!
Yup, ty. Like a million contractions in those 2 paragraphs, got a little carried away clearly.
I live near the London-Southend Airport. So close in fact that my street was cut in half when they extended the runway. I don’t really notice the noise, even though I work nights, so have to sleep when there are planes landing and taking off.
The only problem I have is that even though it’s been 7 years since it opened (8 since they cut my street in half) GPS still hasn’t updated yet. This means that if I’m waiting for a delivery and the driver’s not from the area, their GPS takes them to the wrong half of street. The half to the south of the runway is residential and the other side is all industrial, so it confuses the hell out of drivers looking for my house and all they can find is warehouse, so they end up calling me for directions. I’m so used to it that if I’m expecting a delivery, and the phone rings, I know what’s happened and give them directions before they even say what’s happened.
I love how Mark voices his own comment
I'm not a nationalist or a patriot, and I have no liking for hardstyle music. But playing hardstyle over the Schiphol Airport bit while Charles de Gaulle and Barajas were characterized by stereotypical french and Spanish folk tunes is just a stroke of genius, and a perfect jab at the unconventional Dutch national character.
Bobby Siecker you know nothing. only the chavs listend that
There really isn't any traditional dutch music.. Andre hazes maybe lol.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Volendam music?
@@TreespeakerOfTheLand yeah something like that.
@@jzneter736 I still love happy hardcore and I'm not a chav. Nor were any of my raver friends. Did you go to any raves?
£100 thousand pounds? That sounds like a very cheap airport!
Probably meant £100 Billion, because regarding the Heathrow expansion plan: "The plan involves building a new 3,500m runway about two miles north of the two runways Heathrow already has at an estimated cost of £18.6bn".
+cheetah3333 it's a joke
woosh
He said MORE THAN £100,000. Pay attention
It's one of my standard lines as well: "At least (insert ludicrously low number here)", or "Somewhere between (ludicrously low number) and (just as ludicrously high number)".
5:19 Narita NRT was not built on reclaimed land. More the other airport of Tokyo, Haneda.
Jay: Britain's trains are the worst!
Canada: allow me to introduce myself
4:28 This is a completely accurate depiction of Boris Johnson.
Perfect likeness to, bring back spitting Image, they could do well now with May and Boris
Can someone translate what he's saying here?
He" saying Ah! I propose we open a airport in the sea."
2:17
“...and human sacrifices.”
Make episode 4 of more london underground extensions
7:39 After this video was made, Gatwick built a tiny runway north of the main one. Mainly used by smaller regional jets and large jets if the main one is blocked.
That runway was build in 1979, it’s only ever used when the main runway is closed.
4:24 At first glance, I thought it was the REAL Boris XD
It was
The number of times I’ve put these videos on repeat, they’re amazing 🤩 We need a follow up Jay, since Paris CDG took over Gatwick this week...
2:04 "well as you can ima- *High pitched demonic plane screaming* -and human sacrifices
6:07
This is why there are so many issues today with modern infrastructure. The average citizen doesn't want o plan ahead for future generations, or even as little ahead as for their own children. They demand immediate results for themselves and that leads to rushed and sloppy construction, or no construction at all
Dallas fortworth is essentially it's own city.
London airports: Damn how are we ever going to solve this expansion conundrum?!
Coronavirus: Don't worry, I got your back.
Temporarily anyways. Tourism will be back with a vengeance, I'm sure.
@@zJoriz It won't. Trust me, it won't. We haven't even seen the economical implications of the virus. If those don't lead to WW3, we've hit jackpot already.
Giving this a thumbs up before I've watched it because these are always great.
Now I'm wishing I could thumbs up something twice.
Could hear Hava Nagila at the star of David of the Heathrow
runway nice reference Jay!
Coming from the future, it looks like it's gonna be that last one, the downfall of civilization.
Also nice use of Thunderbirds clips and music.
as a dutch person i can say, it’s really amusing to hear a british person pronounce Schiphol while hearing “Gabber” (basically dutch hardcore music) music on the background
Aaaaannddd Heathrow just announced expansion
so it's good thing right?
@@Harith01x I wonder.
With the range of smaller 2 engine aircraft increasing (and ETOPS) point to point is becoming more popular at the expense of hub and spoke. So less stepping over from one plane to the other.
Sales of big 4 engine aircraft is already plummeting..
This means less flights for Heatrow, limited to those who´s final destination is London city. And small aircraft are able to land on local fields as well. I also expect CO2 taxes shortly, decreasing flights further. (Or at least compensating for population growth.)
Schiphol is also mainly a hub. And although it wants to increase the number of flights, even using Lelystad as a secondary airport, I feel expansion is premature in this rapidly changing landscape. We´ll see :)
Fast forward 8 months and...
How is it possible I only found this videos ten years later. Amazing content.
It doesn't have to take 30 years, just look at Hong Kong airport
Hong Kong airport and all accessories are built on reclaimed land so there's little to none demolition works / land purchases. And POLITICS forces the project to be completed in just 7 years for fear the Chinese takeover would halt it altogether. Back in LHR, if someone files a lawsuit in Sipson the project is pretty much screwed. And can Brexit provide the political urgency comparable to that of Hong Kong for the project to be completed in such a short time?
If kai tak airport still here
Chek Lap Kok was in the works from 1974-1998, almost thirty years
Look at Berlin
British construction is a mess. It took 2 weeks to fix 1 pothole on a nearby road to my house
5:14 there is few mistakes in airport names
First airport is RJTT (Tokyo Haneda) not Kansai
5:15 is RJBB (Kansai)
RJAA (Narita) is inland.
What do you expect from a Foreman wearing green - IN A GREENSCREEN :D
He was joking
5:25 aye u wearin a green t shirt then great idea
He was wearing a green screen too look like his shirt is the sea
2023 has been and gone, we need an updated video