Five planes on the glideslope of the landing runway at the London Heathrow Airport. London Heathrow is one of the busiest airport in the world. Planes must taxi off the runway immediately after landing, using the high speed taxiways available to them. Additionally, I noticed that the ATC's adjusted the distance between successive planes on the glide slope, depending on the size (and in turn the distance - and time - spent on the runway). That, I thought, was impressive efficiency (although I've heard that the rest of the air traffic control in the UK skies, or indeed throughout europe, is extremely cluttered and inefficient)
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