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English Audio Request

yunhee143
158 Words / 2 Recordings / 3 Comments
Note to recorder:

English accent, please.

Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest international airports in the world. More than 90 airline use Heathrow to fly direct to about 200 destinations in 85 countries in the world. Every year Heathrow handles 450,000 international flights, an average of 1300 per day. This is more than one a minute from six o'clock in the morning till midnight. Almost 58,000 people work at Heathrow, that's the population of a small town. There are around 75,000,000 pieces of baggage going through Heathrow each year and there are over 9,500 baggage trolleys available for passengers - more than in any other airport. Passengers buy 26,000 cups of tea and 6,500 sandwiches at Heathrow every day and the duty-free shops sell a bottle of whisky every 7 seconds - that's more than 500 bottles an hour. The most common illness among passengers is heart attack. Around 40 people every year die in this way while travelling to or through Heathrow.

Recordings

  • Airport ( recorded by ben_there_done_that ), Canadian

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    Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest international airports in the world. More than 90 airlines use Heathrow to fly direct to about 200 destinations in 85 countries in the world. Every year Heathrow handles 450,000 international flights, an average of 1300 per day. This is more than one a minute from six o'clock in the morning til midnight. Almost 58,000 people work at Heathrow. That's the population of a small town! There are around 75,000,000 pieces of baggage going through Heathrow each year and there are over 9,500 baggage trolleys available for passengers - more than in any other airport. Passengers buy 26,000 cups of tea and 6,500 sandwiches at Heathrow every day and the duty-free shops sell a bottle of whisky every 7 seconds - that's more than 500 bottles an hour. The most common illness among passengers is heart attack. Around 40 people every year die this way while travelling to or through Heathrow.

  • Airport ( recorded by SeekingSilence ), Midwestern United States

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Comments

yunhee143
Jan. 6, 2014

Thank you thank you ! :D

SeekingSilence
Jan. 7, 2014

yunhee, you're welcome! I hope it helped!

ben_there_done_that
July 7, 2019

Note - Canadian Accent

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