London is the capital city of England. Being one of the world’s leading business, financial and cultural centres, and people all over the world flock to London. London is an international transport hub, with five major international airports. Heathrow Airport carries more international passengers than any other airport in the world.

The straight line distance from Manchester to London is 162.1 miles or 260.76 kilometres while Manchester to Heathrow is a little further.

Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. The airport UK’s busiest airport, as well as being Europe’s busiest airport for passenger traffic and the airport with the highest international passenger traffic in the world. London Heathrow Airport is the primary hub for British Airways and a major hub for other carriers such as bmi and Virgin Atlantic. Heathrow Airport is located west of central London.

Flights from Manchester to Heathrow (MAN - LGW) have an average journey time of 1 hour and 10 minutes. Ticket prices can vary of carrier but averages at £40 per single ticket and average of £75 per return ticket.

Once you have flown from Manchester to Heathrow you will still need to get to the city centre. There are various ways of doing this:

London Underground Piccadilly line serves three stations to London Heathrow Airport (Terminals 1-3, Terminal 4 and Hatton Cross). The standard journey time from Terminal 1-3 station to central London is estimated at 40-50 minutes.

The Heathrow Express will take you from Heathrow Airport to London Paddington Station. This is a non-stop service directly to Paddington, a quicker and more expensive way to get to central London. Trains leave every 15 minutes, with a journey time of 15 minutes and tickets costing £14.50-£23.50. The Heathrow Connect service to Paddington calling at many National Rail stations en route leaves every 30 minutes for about £7.00. If you are willing to travel by coach the National Express could take you to London Victoria Coach Station.

Travelling from Manchester to London by Rail Travelling from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston takes an average of 2 hours and 15 minutes. Prices on tickets vary but you would be able to find cheap day return tickets.

Travelling from Manchester to London by car would be an estimated journey of 198.4 miles or 319.3 kilometres with an average journey time of 3 hours and 54 minutes.