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Gatwick Airport , also known as London Gatwick Airport (), is the secondary
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serving
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,
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. It is located near
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, south of
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. In 2024, Gatwick was the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after
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, and was the 10th-busiest in Europe by total passenger traffic. It covers a total area of . Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s; it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which cover areas of and respectively. It operates as a single-runway airport, using a main runway with a length of . A secondary runway is available but, due to its proximity to the main runway, can only be used if the main runway is not in use. In 2018, 46.1 million passengers passed through the airport, a 1.1% increase compared with 2017. Gatwick is the secondary London hub for
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and the largest operating base for low-cost carrier
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.


History


Early years

The land on which Gatwick Airport stands was first developed as an
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in the late 1920s. The
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approved commercial flights from the site in 1933, and the first terminal, " The Beehive", was built in 1935. Scheduled air services from the new terminal began the following year. During the
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, the airport was taken over by the military and was known as RAF Gatwick. After the war, the airport returned to its civilian capacity. The airport proper was built in the mid-1950s opening in 1956. The airport buildings were designed by
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between 1955 and 1988. In the 1960s,
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(BUA) and
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were two of the largest British independentindependent from
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s
airlines at Gatwick, with the former establishing itself as the dominant scheduled operator at the airport as well as providing a significant number of the airport's non-scheduled services and the latter becoming its leading provider of inclusive tour charter services. Further rapid growth of charter flights at Gatwick was encouraged by the
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, which instructed airlines to move regular charter flights from Heathrow. Following the takeover of BUA by
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at the beginning of the following decade, the resulting airline, British Caledonian (BCal), became Gatwick's dominant scheduled airline during the 1970s. While continuing to dominate scheduled operations at Gatwick for most of the 1980s, BCal was also one of the airport's major charter airlines until the end of the 1970s (together with Dan-Air, Laker Airways and British Airtours).Iyengar, K., ''Bermuda Bloomers'', ''Golden Gatwick'', ''Skyport'', Gatwick edition, Hounslow, 8 February 2008, p. 18 As a result of conditions imposed by Britain's
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on the takeover of BCal by the then newly privatised
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(BA) at the end of the 1980s, Dan-Air and Air Europe assumed BCal's former role as Gatwick's dominant scheduled short-haul operator while BA continued in BCal's erstwhile role as the airport's most important scheduled long-haul operator. Following the demise of Air Europe and Dan-Air (both of which had continued to provide a significant number of charter flights in addition to a growing number of scheduled short-haul flights at Gatwick) in the early 1990s, BA (having purchased Dan-Air) began building up Gatwick into a secondary hub (complementing its main hub at Heathrow). These moves resulted in BA becoming Gatwick's dominant airline by the turn of the millennium.Iyengar, K., ''The only way is up'', ''Golden Gatwick'', ''Skyport'', Gatwick edition, Hounslow, 11 April 2008, p. 16 BA's subsequent decision to de-hub Gatwick provided the space for
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to establish its biggest base at the airport and become its dominant airline.


Transatlantic flights to the United States

From 1978 to 2008, many flights to and from the United States used Gatwick because of restrictions on the use of Heathrow implemented in the Bermuda II Agreement between the UK and the US. The
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, which became effective on 30 March 2008, led several airlines to downsize their transatlantic operations at Gatwick in favour of Heathrow.
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was the second transatlantic carrier (after
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) to leave Gatwick after it decided to transfer the seasonal
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service to Heathrow on 3 May 2009.
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, Gatwick's last remaining US carrier, ended its service between Gatwick and Charlotte on 30 March 2013. This left Gatwick without a scheduled US airline for the first time in 35 years. Before the
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,
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announced its intent to launch service between Gatwick and
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in the summer of 2020, which would have made it the first US airline to service Gatwick since the withdrawal of the US Airways service in 2013, but the massive global travel downturn placed these plans on indefinite hold. In 2021,
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became the first US airline to serve Gatwick since 2013, with services to New York–JFK and Boston.


Development since the 2000s

On 17 September 2008, BAA announced it would sell Gatwick after the
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published a report about BAA's market dominance in London and the South East. On 21 October 2009, it was announced that an agreement had been reached to sell Gatwick to a consortium led by
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(GIP), which subsequently also bought
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in 2012,as of May 2012 for £1.51 billion. The sale was completed on 3 December. In February 2010, GIP sold minority stakes in the airport of 12% and 15% to the South Korean National Pension Service and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for £100 million and £125 million, respectively. The sales were part of GIP's
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to
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the equity portion of the original acquisition by issuing bonds to refinance bank debt. Although this entails bringing additional investors into the airport, GIP aims to retain
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. The
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n state pension fund
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acquired a 12.7% stake in Gatwick Airport for about $155 million (£104.8 million) in June 2010. On 21 December 2010, the A$69 billion (£44 billion)
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, a sovereign wealth fund established by the Australian government in 2006, agreed to purchase a 17.2% stake in Gatwick Airport from GIP for £145 million. This transaction completed GIP's syndication process for the airport, reducing its stake to 42% (although the firm's extra
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meant it still controlled the airport's
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). In August 2020, the airport announced plans to cut over a quarter of its employees as a result of a planned company restructuring caused by the effects of the
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. The planned cuts will bring the total workforce of the airport to 1,900; before the start of the pandemic it was 3,300, however, an additional 785 jobs were cut earlier in 2020. In August 2021, it was reported that Gatwick's operators were in talks with lenders following posting first-half-year net losses of £ 245m.


Corporate Affairs


Ownership

The former BAA Limited (now
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) and its predecessors, BAA plc and the British Airports Authority, owned and operated Gatwick from 1 April 1966 to 2 December 2009. The airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited, owned by
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(GIP), itself owned by
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. In December 2018, Vinci announced that it would acquire a 50.01% majority stake for £2.9bn, with a GIP-managed consortium of investors (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Australia's sovereign wealth fund and two public pension funds in California and South Korea) owning the remaining 49.9%. The sale was completed by the middle of 2019.


Leadership

In September 2023, Margaret Ford, Baroness Ford was announced as the new Chair of Gatwick Airport.


Operations


Facilities

On 31 May 2008,
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opened the V Room, Gatwick's first lounge dedicated to their long-haul leisure travellers. On 25 January 2017, the lounge moved to the North Terminal together with the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse as part of the airline moves that saw British Airways and Virgin Atlantic exchange their previous terminal locations and easyJet consolidated in the North Terminal. On 9 April 2009, an independent pay-for-access lounge opened in the South Terminal. Gatwick also has a conference and business centre, and several on- and off-site hotels ranging in class from executive to
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. The airport has
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, Catholic and
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chaplains, and there are multi-faith prayer and counselling rooms in each terminal. A daily service is led by one of the chaplains. The Civil Aviation Authority Safety Regulation Group is in Aviation House.
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, a geophysical services company, has its head office and Europe–Africa–Russia offices in Schlumberger House, a building on the airport groundsEade, Christine (8 June 2007).
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near the South Terminal. The company had a 15-year lease on the building, scheduled to expire in June 2008. In 2007, WesternGeco reached an agreement with its landlord, BAA Lynton, extending its lease to 2016 at an initial rent of £2.1 million. Fastjet has its registered and head offices at Suite 2C in First Point at the airport. Before the sale, BAA planned an £874 million investment at Gatwick over five years, including increased capacity for both terminals, improvements to the transport interchange and a new baggage system for the South Terminal. Passengers passing through the airport are informed about the redevelopment programme with large mobile barcodes on top of construction hoardings. Scanning these transfers information on the construction to the user's
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. In the summer of 2013, Gatwick introduced ''Gatwick Connect'', a free flight connection service to assist passengers changing flights at Gatwick whose airlines do not provide a full flight connection service. On 15 September 2015, the service was rebranded as ''GatwickConnects''. It is available to passengers connecting on several major airlines.


Flight movements

Gatwick operates as a single-runway airport although it has two runways; the northern runway (08L/26R) can only be used when the main runway (08R/26L) is out of use. The UK Integrated Aeronautical Information Package gives the Takeoff Run Available (TORA) of its main runway (08R/26L) as 3,255 m when aircraft take off in a westerly direction (26) and 3,159 m when takeoffs occur in an easterly direction (08). The documentation lists the respective TORA for the northern runway (08L/26R) as 2,565 m in both directions. Nearly three-quarters of takeoffs are towards the west (74% over 12 months). Both runways are wide; they are apart, which is insufficient for the simultaneous use of both runways. During normal operations the northern runway is used as a taxiway, consistent with its original construction (although it was gradually widened). In October 2018, the airport announced that it was "exploring how to make best use of its existing runways, including the possibility of bringing its existing standby runway into routine use". One scenario would see 08L/26R used for departing narrow-body aircraft only, while the longer 08R/26L would be used for wide-body take-offs and all landings; widening 08L/26R would also increase the centreline separation slightly. New technology could also be used to increase capacity on the main runway, and, in the longer term, the airport remains interested in constructing a new runway to the south. In 2023, plans were announced to expand the second runway and make it operational for regular use. The main runway uses a Category III Instrument Landing System (ILS). The northern runway does not have an ILS; when it is in use, arriving aircraft are radar vectored to intercept an RNAV (
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) approach, providing the aircraft is equipped and the operator has approval. This approach is satellite-based and is also available for the main runway. When an RNAV approach is not possible, assistance from the approach controller using surveillance radar, an "SRA approach" is available. This involves heading instructions and altitude callouts supplied by the
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ler. On both runways, a continuous descent approach is used to minimise the environmental effects of incoming aircraft, particularly at night. Night flights are subject to restrictions; between 11 pm and 7 am, noisier aircraft (rated QC/8 and QC/16) may not operate. From 11.30 pm to 6 am (the night quota period) there are three limits: Number of flights, a Quota Count system, limiting total noise permitted and no night QC/4 flights. Air traffic control services are outsourced. In 2014 a proposed contract award for air traffic control services was suspended due to errors in the airport operator's
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process, which was governed at the time by the
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's rules on procurement in the energy, telecommunications, transport and water sectors. Consideration of the legal case brought by NATS UK discussed whether the court's approach to resolving such cases should consider the ''
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'' principles reflected in UK national procurement law or a different "balance of interests" test, as proposed by NATS, which was less likely to allow a proposed contract award where
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paid to a successful challenger might be an adequate
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. Use of the "balance of interests" test was ruled out by Mr Justice Ramsey.


Security

The airport is policed by the Gatwick District of
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. The district is responsible for the entire airport (including aircraft) and, in certain circumstances, aircraft in flight. The 150 officers attached to this district include armed and unarmed officers, and community support officers for minor offences. The airport district counters man-portable surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS) by patrolling in and around the airport and a separate sub-unit has vehicle checks around the airport. Access to airside portions of the airport is controlled and maintained by the airport's team of security officers, regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority. Brook House, an immigration removal centre of
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, was opened near the airport on 18 March 2009 by the then
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.


Major airlines

The airport is a base for scheduled airlines
British Airways British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main Airline hub, hub at Heathrow Airport. The airline is the second largest UK-based carrier, based on fleet size and pass ...
(BA),
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,
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, and charter operators such as
TUI Airways TUI Airways Limited (formerly Thomson Airways Limited) is the British arm of the TUI Airline group, which is owned and operated by the TUI Group. They offer scheduled and charter flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland to destinations in E ...
. Gatwick is unique among London's airports in its representation of the three main airline business models: full service,
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and
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. As of October 2016, these respectively accounted for 26.6%,excluding scheduled regional air services 61.3% and 13.1%including scheduled regional air services of Gatwick's seat capacity. By late 2015,
easyJet EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlin ...
flew over 100 routes from Gatwick with a fleet of more than 60 aircraft. The airport is the carrier's largest base and its 16 million passengers per year accounted for 45% of Gatwick's 2013 total (ahead of Gatwick's second-largest passenger airline: BA, whose 4.5 million passengers comprised 14% of total passenger traffic in 2011–12).1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 easyJet, BA and
Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Scandinavia's second-largest airline, behind Scandinavian Airlines. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe ...
were Gatwick's three biggest resident airlines, although in late 2020 Norwegian announced the closure of its base at Gatwick. According to data from Airport Coordination Limited, these three airlines respectively accounted for 43.3%, 19% and 10.5% of airport slots in April 2018. According to this data, by April 2018 Norwegian had overtaken
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as Gatwick's number one
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airline by seat capacity, and BA's competitive response to Norwegian's growing commercial threat to its transatlantic business would result in Virgin's relegation to third position among the airport's transatlantic airlines during the 2018 summer timetable period. easyJet, BA and Norwegian collectively accounted for 65.43% of Gatwick's total passengers in 2016 (easyJet: 40.37% / 17.4 million; BA: 14.39% / 6.2 million; Norwegian: 10.67% / 4.6 million). As per
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(OAG) data for the week of 29 May 2017, their respective international departure seat capacity shares at the airport for summer 2017 are 42.1%, 15.4% and 9.4%. In terms of passengers carried easyJet and BA were also among the five largest airlines operating at Gatwick in 2010 (which also included
TUI Airways TUI Airways Limited (formerly Thomson Airways Limited) is the British arm of the TUI Airline group, which is owned and operated by the TUI Group. They offer scheduled and charter flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland to destinations in E ...
and
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at the time) and the top 10 in 2015. In terms of total scheduled airline seats at Gatwick in 2014, easyJet accounted for 18.36 million, more than two-and-a-half times as many as second-placed BA (7 million) and nearly five times the number offered by third-placed Norwegian Air Shuttle (3.74 million). Using data sourced from the OAG Schedules Analyser, the following changes in the respective departure seat capacity shares of Gatwick's three biggest airlines occurred from 2010 to 2015: easyJet's share increased from 26.1% in 2010 to 42.1% in 2015; BA's share dropped from 18.3% in 2010 to 15% in 2015; Norwegian's share rose almost three-fold from less than 3% in 2010 to 8.3% in 2015. easyJet, BA, Norwegian, TUI Airways,
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were Gatwick's top 10 airlines by share of passengers in 2017. easyJet's acquisition of BA franchise carrier GB Airways in March 2008 increased its share of airport slots to 24% (from 17% in late 2007); the airline became the largest short-haul operator at the airport, accounting for 29% of short-haul passengers. By 2009, BA's share of Gatwick slots had fallen to 20% from its peak of 40% in 2001. By 2010, this had declined to 16%. By mid-2012, easyJet had 45% of Gatwick's early-morning peak time slots (6 a.m. to 8:55 a.m.).British Airways, 15%; Thomson Airways, 11%; Monarch Airlines, 7%; Flybe and Thomas Cook Airlines, 6% each By 2008, Flybe was Gatwick's third-largest airline (accounting for 9% of its slots) and its fastest-growing airline. It became the airport's largest domestic operator, carrying 1.2 million passengers in its 2011–12 financial year on eight routes to destinations in the UK, the Channel Islands and the
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. In March 2013, the airline announced that it would end operations at Gatwick, citing unsustainably high airport charges and increases in UK
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. Flybe sold its 25 pairs of daily slotsincluding eight early-morning peak-time slot pairs at the airport to easyJet for £20 million. The latter's share of Gatwick slots increased to 44% in summer 2014; second-placed BA has held about 16% of the airport's slots since 2010. Following the sale of its Gatwick slots to easyJet, Flybe continued to provide the scheduled service between Gatwick and
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, as a result of being awarded the contract to fly this route under a four-year
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(PSO), until the flight was subsequently moved from Gatwick to
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in April 2019. Slots left by the US carriers (and the collapse of Zoom Airlines,
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, and Adria Airways) were taken by easyJet, Flybe,
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. Many full-service airlines have established or resumed operations at the airport, including
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. This is part of the airport's strategy to attract higher-spending
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lers (countering its dependence on European low-cost and charter markets), increasing year-round capacity utilisation by smoothing peaks and troughs in traffic. Gatwick's success in persuading these airlines to launch (or re-launch) routes to overseas destinations important for business and leisure travel was aided by a lack of comparable slots at Heathrow. On 5 May 2020,
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announced it would cease operations at Gatwick due to the
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. On 18 August 2020,
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announced a new hub at Gatwick Airport. Initially basing their A321 aircraft there along with additional commercial routes to Greece, Italy, Spain, and Malta operating from 22 October 2020, onwards. In September 2021, the
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announced that
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would terminate its short- and medium-haul base operations at Gatwick with immediate effect resulting in the cancellation of more than 30 routes. This came after labour negotiations regarding the handover of these operations, most of which were still suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to a newly formed budget subsidiary failed. British Airways continues to serve two domestic destinations, Glasgow and Manchester alongside their long-haul network from Gatwick. British Airways has now resumed short-haul flights from Gatwick, as a new subsidiary which will be initially operated by British Airways, but will soon be managed under the trading name " BA EuroFlyer". The company expects this to happen by the autumn of 2022.


City Place Gatwick

Gatwick's original terminal, the Beehive, is included within the City Place Gatwick office complex together with 1, 2 and 3 City Place. The complex was developed by BAA Lynton. Some airlines have had offices at the Beehive, including BEA/British Airways Helicopters, Jersey Airlines,
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, Virgin Atlantic and GB Airways.The Beehive
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Other airlines which had headquarters on airport property (including office buildings on the site of, or adjacent to, the original 1930s airport) include British Caledonian,
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CityFlyer Express CityFlyer Express was a short-haul regional airline with its head office in the Iain Stewart Centre next to Gatwick Airport, London Gatwick Airport in England. In 1993 it became the first British Airways (BA) franchising, franchisee operating a ...
, Fastjet, Laker Airways and Tradewinds Airways. "Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley. Surrey."


Gatwick Aviation Museum

Situated to the northwest of the airfield near the village of
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, there is a museum including original items and photographs from Gatwick's history, as well as a variety of military aircraft. It is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday all year round.


Terminals

The airport has two terminals, South and North, with 65 total gates. Both have shops and restaurants landside and airside, and all areas are accessible to disabled passengers. There are facilities for baby changing and feeding. Business travellers have specialised lounges. The North and South Terminals are connected by a 0.75-mile (1.21 km), elevated, two-way automated
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landside. They are not connected once past security.


South Terminal

South Terminal has 32 gates with jetbridges and 7 remote gates. Pier 1 has gates 1-5, all equipped with jetbridges, Pier 2 has gates 10A and gates 10-28 all with jetbridges, except 10A. Pier 3 has gates 31-39 jetbridges and 90-95 (bus gates). The official opening of the central pier of what is now the South Terminal, with 11 aircraft stands, was on 9 June 1958. Gatwick was one of the world's first airports with an enclosed
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-based terminal, which allowed passengers to walk under cover to waiting areas near the aircraft (with only a short walk outdoors). Another feature of Gatwick's new air terminal was its
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, permitting subsequent, phased expansion.''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 8 As passenger numbers grew, a circular satellite pier was added to the terminal building. It was connected to the main terminal by the UK's first automated
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system. This replaced the original North Pier dating from 1962; the people mover was subsequently replaced with a walkway and travelators. The South Terminal was temporarily closed from June 2020, and all airlines normally operating from this terminal were relocated to the North Terminal, owing to the sharp decline in passenger traffic as a result of the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It fully reopened in March 2022. During the time it was not in operation, it was used as a remote filming location for the fourteenth series of the television show ''Taskmaster''.


North Terminal

North Terminal has 31 gates with jetbridges including three which can support an Airbus A380. Pier 4 has bussing gate 45 and jetbridge gates 46-55. Pier 5 has gates 557-574, all with jetbridges. Pier 6 has gates 101-113, all with jetbridges . Construction began on the North Terminal on land previously earmarked for a second runway in the draft plan of May 1970. This was the largest construction project south of London in the 1980s, costing £200 million. In 1991 a second aircraft pier was added to the North Terminal. On 16 May 2005, the new Pier 6 opened at £110 million, adding 11 pier-served aircraft stands. The pier is linked to the North Terminal's main building by the second-largest air passenger bridge in the world, spanning a taxiway and providing passengers with views of the airport and taxiing aircraft. A large extension to the terminal was opened by former Prime Minister
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in November 2011.


Terminal assignments and rearrangements

As part of a seven-year strategic commercial partnership between Gatwick and
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, the airport proposed several changes to individual airlines' terminal locations. These would see EasyJet consolidate all its Gatwick operations in the North Terminal, while
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would swap their terminals. Gatwick believes that these terminal moves improve the airport's operational efficiency and resilience, as the use of different terminals by EasyJet and British Airways reduces pressure on the North Terminal's check-in, security, boarding and ramp areas at peak times. In addition, a terminal swap by Virgin frees up lounge and gate space for BA long-haul passengers in the South Terminal and, unlike BA's current short-haul schedules, Virgin's long-haul schedules do not clash with EasyJet's busy schedule in the North Terminal due to the airlines' differing peak times. It was confirmed in January 2015 that British Airways would move all its flights to the South Terminal in November 2016 while all EasyJet flights would be consolidated in the North Terminal at the same time. However, it was decided in February 2016 to postpone the agreed relocation of airlines until 25 January 2017, to avoid operational disruptions over the 2016–17 Christmas season and to give all parties involved enough time to deal with any unforeseen issues ahead of the February 2017 half-term holidays. The relocation of these airlines was accomplished by the revised date of 25 January 2017.


Airlines and destinations

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Larnaca Larnaca, also spelled Larnaka, is a city on the southeast coast of Cyprus and the capital of the Larnaca District, district of the same name. With a district population of 155.000 in 2021, it is the third largest city in the country after Nicosi ...
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Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...
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Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
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Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech (; , ) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi Regions of Morocco, region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mounta ...
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Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ...
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Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million
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Palma de Mallorca Palma (, ; ), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is ...
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Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...
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Port of Spain Port of Spain ( ; Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian English: ''Port ah Spain'' ) is the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago. With a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), an urban population of 81,142 and a transient dail ...
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Punta Cana Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic. It was politically incorporated as the "Verón–Punta Cana township" in 2006, and it is subject to the municipality of Higüey (La Altagracia Province). According ...
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Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...
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Seville Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...
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Tampa Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and t ...
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Tobago Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger islan ...
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Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
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Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

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Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
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Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...
, Cagliari Elmas Airport, Cagliari, Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, Catania, Chambéry Airport, Chambéry, Corfu International Airport, Corfu, Dalaman Airport, Dalaman, Fuerteventura Airport, Fuerteventura, Geneva Airport, Geneva, Alpes–Isère Airport, Grenoble, Heraklion International Airport, Heraklion, Ibiza Airport, Ibiza, Innsbruck Airport, Innsbruck,{{cite web , url=https://airlinergs.com/british-airways-adds-five-new-short-haul-services-to-its-london-gatwick-network/ , title=British Airways Adds Five New Short-Haul Services to Its London Gatwick Network , date=4 January 2023 , access-date=4 January 2023 , archive-date=2 February 2023 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202234016/https://airlinergs.com/british-airways-adds-five-new-short-haul-services-to-its-london-gatwick-network/ , url-status=live Ivalo Airport, Ivalo, Kos International Airport, Kos, Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas, Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, Lyon, Menorca Airport, Menorca, Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport, Montpellier, New York–JFK, Paphos International Airport, Paphos, Rhodes International Airport, Rhodes, Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport, Salerno, Juan Santamaría International Airport, San José (CR),{{citation needed, date=April 2025 Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, Sharm El Sheikh, Thessaloniki Airport, Thessaloniki, Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver ,
China Eastern Airlines China Eastern Airlines (branded as China Eastern) is a major airline in China, headquartered in Changning, Shanghai, Changning, Shanghai. It is one of the three major airlines in the country, along with Air China and China Southern Airlines. ...
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China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines (branded as China Southern) is a major airline in China, headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It is one of the three major airlines in the country, along with Air China and China Eastern Airlines. Established on 1 ...
, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou (resumes 20 June 2025), Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, Zhengzhou , Corendon Airlines , Seasonal:
Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
, Heraklion International Airport, Heraklion , Croatia Airlines , Seasonal: Split Airport, Split ,
Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a Major airlines of the United States, major airline in the United States headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, operating nine hubs, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being its ...
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easyJet EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlin ...
, Aberdeen Airport, Aberdeen,
Agadir Agadir (, ; ) is a major List of cities in Morocco, city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sous River, Souss River flows into the ocean, and south of Casabla ...
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Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...
, Almería Airport, Almería, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam,
Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
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Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
, Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport, Barcelona,
Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...
, EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, Basel/Mulhouse, George Best Belfast City Airport, Belfast–City,{{Cite web, last1=Liu, first1=Jim, url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/220711-u2aug22lgwman, title=easyJet London Gatwick / Manchester Aug 2022 Operation Update - 10JUL22, website=Aeroroutes.com, date=11 July 2022, accessdate=7 April 2025, language=en Belfast–International, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Berlin,
Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Budapest,{{Cite web, last1=Liu, first1=Jim, url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240119-u2jul24gb, title=easyJet July/August 2024 UK Frequency Variations – 14JAN24, website=Aeroroutes.com, date=19 January 2024, accessdate=1 April 2025, language=en Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, Catania, Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Dalaman Airport, Dalaman, Düsseldorf Airport, Düsseldorf,{{cite web, url=https://www.aerotelegraph.com/easyjet-startet-mit-drei-routen-am-flughafen-duesseldorf, title=Easyjet startet mit drei Routen am Flughafen Düsseldorf, website=aerotelegraph.com, date=7 November 2024 Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh, Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport, Enfidha, Faro, Fuerteventura Airport, Fuerteventura,
Funchal Funchal () officially Funchal City (), is the capital, largest city and a Municipality (Portugal), municipality in Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it ...
, Geneva Airport, Geneva, Gibraltar International Airport, Gibraltar,
Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...
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Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...
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Jersey Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
, Kraków John Paul II International Airport, Kraków,
Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi ...
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Larnaca Larnaca, also spelled Larnaka, is a city on the southeast coast of Cyprus and the capital of the Larnaca District, district of the same name. With a district population of 155.000 in 2021, it is the third largest city in the country after Nicosi ...
, Humberto Delgado Airport, Lisbon, Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, Ljubljana, Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, Lyon, Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid,
Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...
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Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
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Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech (; , ) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi Regions of Morocco, region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mounta ...
, Marseille Provence Airport, Marseille, Menorca Airport, Menorca, Milan–Linate, Milan–Malpensa, Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport, Montpellier, Munich Airport, Munich, Región de Murcia International Airport, Murcia, Nantes Atlantique Airport, Nantes, Naples International Airport, Naples,
Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport, Olbia,
Palma de Mallorca Palma (, ; ), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is ...
, Paphos International Airport, Paphos, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pisa International Airport, Pisa,
Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...
, Václav Havel Airport Prague, Prague, Rennes Airport, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Amílcar Cabral International Airport, Sal,
Seville Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...
, Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, Sharm El Sheikh, Strasbourg Airport, Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki Airport, Thessaloniki, Toulouse Airport, Toulouse (resumes 26 October 2025),
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, Valencia Airport, Valencia, Venice Marco Polo Airport, Venice,
Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...
, Zurich Airport, Zurich
Seasonal: Bastia – Poretta Airport, Bastia, Biarritz Pays Basque Airport, Biarritz, Milas–Bodrum Airport, Bodrum, Brest Bretagne Airport, Brest (resumes 25 June 2025), Brindisi Airport, Brindisi, Burgas Airport, Burgas, Chania International Airport, Chania, Corfu International Airport, Corfu,
Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, historically known as Ragusa, is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, a Port, seaport and the centre of the Dubrovni ...
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Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...
, Santorini (Thira) International Airport, Santorini, Skiathos International Airport, Skiathos, Sofia Airport, Sofia, Split Airport, Split, Tivat Airport, Tivat, Tromsø Airport, Tromsø, Zadar Airport, Zadar, Zakynthos International Airport, Zakynthos ,
Emirates Emirates may refer to: * United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective ...
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JetBlue JetBlue Airways Corporation, stylized as jetBlue, is an American major airline headquartered in Long Island City, in Queens, New York City. Primarily a point-to-point carrier, JetBlue's network features six focus cities including its main hub ...
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Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
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Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
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Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
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Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Scandinavia's second-largest airline, behind Scandinavian Airlines. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe ...
, Bergen Airport, Flesland, Bergen, Billund Airport, Billund (begins 30 June 2025), Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Helsinki Airport, Helsinki, Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Oslo, Stavanger Airport, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim Airport, Trondheim
Seasonal: Ålesund Airport, Vigra, Ålesund,{{cite web , title=Norwegian NS25 Network Additions – 08DEC24 , url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/241211-dyd8ns25 , website=Aeroroutes , access-date=11 December 2024 Göteborg Landvetter Airport, Gothenburg, Riga Airport, Riga, Rovaniemi Airport, Rovaniemi, Tromsø Airport, Tromsø{{citation needed, date=April 2025 , Nouvelair , Tunis–Carthage International Airport, Tunis ,
Qatar Airways Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. (, ''al-Qaṭariyya''), operating as Qatar Airways, is the flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, flying to over 170 internatio ...
, Hamad International Airport, Doha , Royal Air Maroc , Mohammed V International Airport, Casablanca
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Tangier Tangier ( ; , , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital city, capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Moroc ...
, Royal Brunei Airlines , Seasonal: Brunei International Airport, Bandar Seri Begawan (begins 22 July 2025) ,
Ryanair Ryanair is an Irish Low-cost carrier#Ultra low-cost carrier, ultra low-cost airline group headquartered in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. The parent company, Ryanair Holdings plc, includes subsidiaries Ryanair , Malta Air, Buzz (Ryanair), Buzz ...
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Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...
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Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines (abbreviation: SIA or SQ) is the flag carrier of Singapore with its Airline hub, hub located at Changi Airport. Considered to be one of the world's best carriers, the airline is ranked as a 5-star airline as well as ranked ...
, Changi Airport, Singapore , Sky Alps , Bolzano Airport, Bolzano , Sky Express (Greece), Sky Express ,
Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
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Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
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Seasonal: Milas–Bodrum Airport, Bodrum (begins 4 May 2026), Dalaman Airport, Dalaman,{{Cite web, last1=Liu, first1=Jim, url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240227-xqns24intl, title=SunExpress NS24 International Frequency Changes – 25FEB24, website=Aeroroutes.com, date=27 February 2024, accessdate=3 February 2025, language=en-ca İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, İzmir , {{nowrap, Swiss International Air Lines , Zurich Airport, Zurich
Seasonal: Geneva Airport, Geneva , TAP Air Portugal , Humberto Delgado Airport, Lisbon, Porto Airport, Porto ,
TUI Airways TUI Airways Limited (formerly Thomson Airways Limited) is the British arm of the TUI Airline group, which is owned and operated by the TUI Group. They offer scheduled and charter flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland to destinations in E ...
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Agadir Agadir (, ; ) is a major List of cities in Morocco, city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sous River, Souss River flows into the ocean, and south of Casabla ...
, Aristides Pereira International Airport, Boa Vista,
Cancún Cancún is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat of the municipality of Benito J ...
, Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport, Enfidha, Fuerteventura Airport, Fuerteventura,
Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...
, Hurghada International Airport, Hurghada,
Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi ...
, La Palma Airport, La Palma,
Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...
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Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech (; , ) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi Regions of Morocco, region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mounta ...
, Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay,
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Statistics


Overview

In 2015, Gatwick became the first single-runway airport to handle more than 40 million passengers annually.{{cite press release , url=http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2016/16-01-13-gatwick-sets-new-global-passenger-record-underlining-expansion-case.aspx , title=Gatwick sets new global passenger record for a single runway airport, underlining expansion case , date=13 January 2016 , access-date=15 January 2016 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117222331/http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2016/16-01-13-gatwick-sets-new-global-passenger-record-underlining-expansion-case.aspx , archive-date=17 January 2016 , url-status=live , publisher=Gatwick Airport By 2016,
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accounted for over 40% of Gatwick's total passengers.{{cite web , url=http://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/about-gatwick/company-information/gatwick-by-numbers/ , title=Gatwick by numbers [2016] , publisher=Gatwick Airport , date=December 2016 , access-date=10 March 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312061623/http://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/about-gatwick/company-information/gatwick-by-numbers/ , archive-date=12 March 2017 , url-status=dead When ranked by World's busiest airports by passenger traffic, global passenger traffic, Gatwick is the 35th busiest internationally and the eighth List of the busiest airports in Europe, busiest airport in Europe. Gatwick is the world's leading low-cost carrier, low-cost airport and until March 2017 had the world's busiest single-use runway,by passengers; by movements until 2016 with a maximum of 55 aircraft movements per hour.{{cite report, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCdxKqrKUNsC&pg=PA112, title=The Future of BAA: Fourth Report of Session 2007–08, isbn=978-0-215-51413-4, date=February 2008, publisher=The Stationery Office, author=House of Commons Transport Committee, at=Ev. 112{{cite news, last1=V, first1=Manju, date=13 May 2017, title=Now, Mumbai world's busiest airport with only one runway, newspaper=The Times of India, location=Mumbai, url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/now-mumbai-worlds-busiest-airport-with-only-one-runway/articleshow/58652790.cms, url-status=live, access-date=13 May 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513081650/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/now-mumbai-worlds-busiest-airport-with-only-one-runway/articleshow/58652790.cms, archive-date=13 May 2017 46.1 million passengers passed through Gatwick in 2018, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year. Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and other long-haulexcluding North Atlantic traffic recorded increases over the previous year of 24.4% and 12.7% to 4.04 million and 4.65 million passengers, respectively. UK,including the Channel Islands and the
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European charter,including North Africa Irish and European scheduled passenger traffic recorded decreases over the previous year of 8.7%, 5.7%, 1.1% and 0.9% to 3.73 million, 2.88 million, 1.67 million and 29.11 million, respectively. Air transport movements decreased by 0.7% to 283,926. Cargo volume increased by 16.1% to 112,676 metric tonnes. Compared with a year earlier, January to March 2019 passenger numbers increased by 4% to 9.675 million (an increase of 374,700 over January to March 2018). The following changes were recorded amongst individual passenger traffic categories: North Atlantic traffic +15.3% (784,200 passengers); European scheduled traffic +3.9% (5.649 million passengers); other long-haul traffic +3.2% (1.277 million passengers); European charter traffic +2.1% (710,900 passengers); Irish traffic +1.6% (412,000 passengers) and UK traffic -0.2% (841,700 passengers). Air transport movements increased by 3.3% to 62,392. Cargo volume increased by 7.2% to 27,390 metric tonnes, which was driven by a 7.5% increase in overall long-haul passenger traffic. The growing popularity of the GatwickConnects flight connections assistance service provided by the airport for self-connecting passengers was driven by additional passengers changing flights at Gatwick whose journey originated in Edinburgh (+80%), Jersey (+58%) and Belfast (+50%).


Busiest routes

{, class="wikitable sortable" style="width:align" , + Busiest international routes from LGW (2024) ! Rank ! Destination ! Passengers ! Change 2023 / 24 , - , 1 , {{flagicon , ESP Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Barcelona, Spain , 1,350,954 , {{increase 5.84% , - , 2 , {{flagicon , ESP Malaga Airport, Malaga, Spain , 1,197,738 , {{increase 6.75% , - , 3 , {{flagicon , IRE Dublin Airport, Dublin, Republic of Ireland , 1,053,277 , {{decrease 17.71% , - , 4 , {{flagicon , ITA Rome Fiumicino Airport, Rome-Fiumicino, Italy , 927,798 , {{increase 16.39% , - , 5 , {{flagicon , UAE Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates , 925,000 , {{decrease 4.61% , - , 6 , {{flagicon , PRT Faro Airport, Faro, Portugal , 853,429 , {{increase 0.75% , - , 7 , {{flagicon , ESP Alicante Airport, Alicante, Spain , 787,710 , {{increase 6.81% , - , 8 , {{flagicon , ITA Milan Malpensa Airport, Milan-Malpensa, Italy , 778,472 , {{increase 12.75% , - , 9 , {{flagicon , SWI Geneva Airport, Geneva, Switzerland , 764,195 , {{increase 3.52% , - , 10 , {{flagicon , TUR Antalya Airport, Antalya, Turkey , 739,804 , {{increase 6.55% , - , 11 , {{flagicon , NLD Amsterdam Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands , 729,229 , {{decrease 12.29% , - , 12 , {{flagicon , ESP Tenerife South Airport, Tenerife-South, Spain , 729,018 , {{increase 2.60% , - , 13 , {{flagicon , ESP Palma de Mallorca Airport, Palma de Mallorca, Spain , 725,857 , {{increase 6.98% , - , 14 , {{flagicon , ESP Madrid Airport, Madrid, Spain , 636,616 , {{decrease 4.80% , - , 15 , {{flagicon , MAR Marrakesh Menara Airport, Marrakesh, Morocco , 605,656 , {{increase 20.75% , - , 16 , {{flagicon , DEN Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark , 593,613 , {{decrease 0.33% , - , 17 , {{flagicon , TUR Istanbul Airport, Istanbul, Turkey , 586,369 , {{decrease 35.26% , - , 18 , {{flagicon , USA New York JFK Airport, New York City, United States , 526,369 , {{increase 2.45% , - , 19 , {{flagicon , FRA Nice Airport, Nice, France , 520,953 , {{decrease 10.89% , - , 20 , {{flagicon , TUR Dalaman Airport, Dalaman, Turkey , 503,953 , {{increase 4.70% , - , - class="sortbottom" , colspan="4" style="text-align:right;", ''Source: Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom), CAA Statistics''{{Cite web , title=Annual airport data 2024 , url=https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analysis/uk-aviation-market/airports/uk-airport-data/uk-airport-data-2024/annual-2024/ , access-date=1 April 2025 , website=www.caa.co.uk {, class="wikitable sortable" style="width:align" , + Busiest domestic routes from LGW (2024) ! Rank ! Destination ! Passengers ! Change 2023 / 24 , - , 1 , {{flagicon , Scotland Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh , 476,152 , {{increase 3.64% , - , 2 , {{flagicon , Scotland
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, 455,095 , {{decrease 2.37% , - , 3 , {{flagicon , Northern Ireland Belfast International Airport, Belfast-Intl , 444,142 , {{decrease 8.33% , - , 4 , {{flagicon , Jersey
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, 381,611 , {{increase 11.31% , - , 5 , {{flagicon , Northern Ireland Belfast-City Airport, Belfast-City , 277,800 , {{increase 18.98% , - , 6 , {{flagicon , Guernsey
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, 254,601 , {{decrease 17.22% , - , 7 , {{flagicon , Scotland Inverness Airport, Inverness , 222,417 , {{decrease 0.25% , - , 8 , {{flagicon , Scotland Aberdeen Airport, Aberdeen , 196,469 , {{increase 0.80% , - , 9 , {{flagicon , Isle of Man Isle of Man Airport, Isle of Man , 165,643 , {{increase 3.32% , - , 10 , {{flagicon , England Newquay Airport, Newquay , 83,252 , {{decrease 0.83% , - class="sortbottom" , colspan="4" style="text-align:right;", ''Source: Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom), CAA Statistics''{{Cite web , title=Annual airport data 2024 , url=https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analysis/uk-aviation-market/airports/uk-airport-data/uk-airport-data-2024/annual-2024/ , access-date=1 April 2025 , website=www.caa.co.uk


Traffic

Gatwick handled 186,172 passengers during its first seven months of operation after the 1956–58 reconstruction; the annual number of passengers passing through the airport was 368,000 in 1959 and 470,000 in 1960."Gatwick Airport History", Business & Community Reference Guide for in and around Crawley 2008/09, Wealden Marketing, 2008, p. 85''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 9 Passenger numbers reached one million for the first time during the 1962–63 fiscal year,1 April 1962 to 31 March 1963 with
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(BUA) accounting for four-fifths. The 1.5 million mark was exceeded for the first time during the 1966–67 fiscal year.1 April 1966 to 31 March 1967 This was also the first time more than half a million scheduled passengers used the airport. Gatwick accommodated two million passengers for the first time during the 1967–68 fiscal year1 April 1967 to 31 March 1968 and 3 million in the 1969–70 fiscal year,1 April 1969 to 31 March 1970 with BUA accounting for nearly half. By the early 1970s, 5 million passengers used Gatwick each year, with a record 5.7 million during the 1973–74 fiscal year.1 April 1973 to 31 March 1974 During that period, British Caledonian accounted for approximately half of all charter passengers and three-fourths of scheduled passengers.''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 10 Within a decade annual passenger numbers doubled, to 10 million; they doubled again, to over 20 million, by the late 1980s.''The Gatwick Express'', p. 42 By the turn of the millennium, Gatwick handled more than 30 million passengers annually. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right; margin:auto;" ! Year!!Number of
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(tonnes) , - !2000 , 32,068,540 , , – , , 260,859 , , 318,905 , - !2001 , 31,181,770 , , {{decrease{{02.8% , , 252,543 , , 280,098 , - !2002 , 29,627,420 , , {{decrease{{05.0% , , 242,379 , , 242,519 , - !2003 , 30,005,260 , , {{increase{{01.3% , , 242,731 , , 222,916 , - !2004 , 31,466,770 , , {{increase{{04.9% , , 251,195 , , 218,204 , - !2005 , 32,775,695, , {{increase{{04.2% , , 261,292 , , 222,778 , - !2006 , 34,163,579 , , {{increase{{04.2% , , 263,363 , , 211,857 , - !2007 , 35,216,113 , , {{increase{{03.1% , , 266,550 , , 171,078 , - !2008 , 34,205,887 , , {{decrease{{02.9% , , 263,653 , , 107,702 , - !2009 , 32,392,520 , , {{decrease{{05.3% , , 251,879 , , 74,680 , - !2010 , 31,375,290 , , {{decrease{{03.1% , , 240,500 , , 104,032 , - !2011 , 33,674,264 , , {{increase{{07.3% , , 251,067 , , 88,085 , - !2012 , 34,235,982 , , {{increase{{01.7% , , 246,987 , , 97,567 , - !2013 , 35,444,206 , , {{increase{{03.5% , , 250,520 , , 96,724 , - !2014 , 38,103,667 , , {{increase{{07.5% , , 259,692 , , 88,508 , - !2015 , 40,269,087 , , {{increase{{05.7% , , 267,760 , , 73,371 , - !2016 , 43,119,628 , , {{increase{{07.1% , , 280,666 , , 79,588 , - !2017 , 45,516,700 , , {{increase{{05.2% , , 285,969 , , 96,983 , - !2018 , 46,075,400 , , {{increase{{01.1% , , 283,926 , , 112,600 , - !2019 , 46,574,786 , , {{increase{{01.1% , , 282,896 , , 110,358 , - !2020 , 10,171,867 , , {{decrease{{078.2% , , 79,489 , , 26,063 , - !2021 , 6,260,072 , , {{decrease{{038.5% , , 52,000 , , 11,623 , - !2022 , 32,800,000 , , {{increase{{0423.9% , , 217,524 , , 36,407 , - !2023 , 40,894,242 , , {{increase{{024.7% , , 253,047 , , 61,123 , - class="sortbottom" , colspan="5" style="text-align:right;", ''Source 2000–2016: UK Civil Aviation Authority''
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Ground transport


Road

The airport is accessible from a motorway spur road at junction 9A of the M23 motorway, M23, which links to the main M23 motorway {{convert, 1, mi, km east at junction 9. The M23 connects with London's orbital motorway, the M25 motorway, M25, {{convert, 9, mi, km north; this provides access to much of Greater London, the South East and beyond, and the M23 is the main route for traffic to (and from) the airport. Gatwick is also accessible from the A23 road, A23, which serves Horley and Redhill, Surrey, Redhill to the north and
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and Brighton to the south. The A217 provides access northwards to the town of Reigate. The airport has long- and short-stay car parks at the airport and off-site, although these are often full in summer. Local restrictions limit parking at Gatwick. Gatwick has set goals of 40% public transport use by the time annual passenger traffic reaches 40 million (in 2015) and 45% by the time it reaches 45 million.


Rail

{{main, Gatwick Airport railway station Gatwick Airport railway station is located adjacent to the South Terminal and has served the airport since 1958.{{cite web, url=https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/gatwickairportstatio/, title=Gatwick Airport Railway Station, website=Railway Technology, access-date=1 July 2018, archive-date=2 July 2018, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702035450/https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/gatwickairportstatio/, url-status=live It is located on the Brighton Main Line, and is mainly served by Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway), Southern, Thameslink, and Gatwick Express. It also receives a half-hourly service operated by Great Western Railway (train operating company), Great Western Railway via the North Downs Line. To the south, Southern, Thameslink, and Gatwick Express all provide direct connections to Brighton railway station, Brighton. Southern also provides connections to Eastbourne railway station, Eastbourne, Littlehampton railway station, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis railway station, Bognor Regis, and Portsmouth Harbour railway station, Portsmouth Harbour. To the north, Thameslink provides connections to London Bridge railway station, London Bridge, Gatwick Express provides non-stopping connections to London Victoria, and Southern provides connections to both stations. Thameslink trains continue further north through the Thameslink Core to St Pancras International, Bedford railway station, Bedford, Peterborough railway station, Peterborough, and Cambridge railway station, Cambridge. Great Western Railway also provides a half-hourly service to Reading railway station, Reading via Guildford railway station, Guildford. The station provides single-change connections to
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and Luton Airport via northbound Thameslink services. Heathrow Airport can be reached by changing to the Elizabeth line at Farringdon railway station, Farringdon, whilst Luton Airport can be reached by the Luton DART station at Luton Airport Parkway. London Oyster Cards and Contactless payment, contactless cards are accepted on all rail routes from Gatwick Airport into London.


Bus

National Express Coaches operates coaches to
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, London Stansted Airport and cities and towns throughout the region and country. Oxford Bus Company operates direct services to Oxford, and EasyBus operates mini-coaches from both terminals to Earls Court and West Brompton.{{citation needed, date=March 2024 Local buses connect the North and South Terminals with Crawley, Horley, Redhill, Horsham and Caterham. Services are offered by Metrobus (South East England), Metrobus, including Metrobus's Fastway (bus rapid transit), Fastway services operated on a Guided bus, partly guided bus rapid transit system which was the first of its kind to be built outside a major city.{{citation needed, date=March 2024


Bike

National Cycle Route 21, Route 21 of the National Cycle Network passes under the South Terminal, allowing virtually traffic-free cycling and walking northwards to Horley and southwards to Three Bridges, West Sussex, Three Bridges and Crawley. A goods-style lift runs between the terminal and ground level (labelled "Lift to Cycle Route") near Zone L.{{citation needed, date=March 2024


Terminal transfer

{{main, Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit The airport's North and South Terminals are connected by a {{convert, 0.75, mi, km, elevated, two-way automated people mover track. The transit shuttle normally consists of two automatic, three-car, driverless trains. Although colloquially known as a "monorail", the shuttle instead runs on a dual, concrete track with rubber tyres.{{cite book, last=Hudson, first=Kenneth, title=Industrial history from the air, publisher=Cambridge University Press, date=22 November 1984, pages=111–115, chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=gatwick&pg=PA135, chapter=Airports and Airfields, isbn=978-0-521-25333-8, access-date=16 November 2021, archive-date=10 November 2023, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110005340/https://books.google.com/books?id=3DY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=gatwick&pg=PA135#v=onepage&q=gatwick&f=false, url-status=live The transit is land side, and besides linking the two terminals also links the North terminal to the airport railway station. The shuttle opened in 1987, along with the North Terminal, and initially used Adtranz C-100 people-mover cars which remained in operation until September 2009, by which time they had travelled a total of 2.5 million miles (4 million km). Gatwick began upgrading its shuttle service in April 2008, with a bus replacement service in place from September 2009. A new operating system and shuttle cars (six Bombardier CX-100 vehicles) were installed, and the guideway and transit stations were refurbished at a total cost of £45 million. The system re-opened on 1 July 2010, two months ahead of schedule; it featured live journey information and sensory technology to count the number of passengers at stations. An earlier transit system, that opened in 1983 to link the main terminal (now the South Terminal) to the (then new) circular satellite pier, was the UK's first automated people-moving system. This system has since been replaced by a walkway-and-moving walkway link, although the remains of the elevated guideway are still visible.


Expansion proposals

{{Main, Expansion of Gatwick Airport Gatwick has been included in many reviews of airport capacity in southeastern England. Expansion options have included a third terminal and a second runway; although an agreement not to build a second runway was made in 1979 with West Sussex County Council, that agreement expired by its terms after 40 years. Expanded operations would allow Gatwick to handle more passengers than Heathrow does today, with a new terminal between two wide-spaced runways. This would complement or replace the South Terminal, depending on expected future traffic. Airport management's proposal for a second runway (south of the existing runway and airport boundary) was unveiled in July 2013. This was shortlisted for further consideration by the Airports Commission in December 2013, and the commission's final report was published in July 2015.{{cite web , url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23410288 , title=Gatwick Airport announces second runway plan , work=BBC News , date=23 July 2013 , access-date=23 July 2013 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725074103/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23410288 , archive-date=25 July 2013 , url-status=live Another proposal would extend the North Terminal south, with a passenger bridge in the area currently occupied by aircraft stands without jet bridges.{{cite web , url=http://www.baa.com/assets/B2CPortal/Static%20Files/lgw_interim_masterplan.pdf , title=interim master plan (Gatwick Interim Master Plan – October 2006) , date=15 August 2010 , access-date=15 August 2010 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728043101/http://www.baa.com/assets/B2CPortal/Static%20Files/lgw_interim_masterplan.pdf , archive-date=28 July 2011 , url-status=live Gatwick's draft master plan (released for consultation on 13 October 2011) dropped the passenger-bridge plan in favour of a mid-field satellite (next to the control tower) linking to the North Terminal as part of an expanded 2030 single-runway, two-terminal airport. In late 2011, the Department for Transport (DfT) also began a feasibility study for a high-speed rail link between Gatwick and Heathrow as part of a plan combining the airports into a "collective" or "virtual hub", Heathwick. The scheme envisaged a high-speed rail route parallel to the M25 motorway, M25, covering {{convert, 35, mi in 15 minutes. Trains would have reached speeds of {{convert, 180, mph, kph, abbr=on, and passengers would have passed through immigration (or check-in) only once. Reactions to this proposal were largely negative. Another proposal for a high-speed railway link to Heathrow, HS4Air, as part of a scheme to link the High Speed 1 and High Speed 2 railway lines and connect regional cities in Britain to the Channel Tunnel, was rejected in 2018. On 1 July 2015, the Airports Commission submitted its final report, recommending the expansion of Heathrow Airport as opposed to Gatwick. Whilst the commission recognised Gatwick's benefits and relatively fewer environmental consequences than Heathrow, they felt the economic benefits of Gatwick vs. Heathrow were not as great, nor as broad-ranging. Gatwick disputed the findings. On 9 September 2021, GAL opened its first public consultation to carry out major works at the runway to increase its capacity from 64 million passengers a year to 75 million passengers a year by moving the northern "emergency" runway to the north to meet international standards for dual runway use. Airport management plans to use this runway only for take-offs by all but the largest aircraft. It hoped to receive approval in 2024, with the main works taking 4 years to complete, and 13 years to be fully complete. Works would also involve a new pier, hotels, terminal expansion and highway improvements including flyovers of the M23 Spur / A23 Airport Way at the terminal roundabouts. Planning permission for the runway realignment was formally requested in July 2023. The plan would cost around £2.2 billion, financed by private investors rather than government backing, and would be operational within around five years. On 27 February 2025, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced that she was "minded to approve" the proposals, subject to noise mitigation. A period of additional consultation was announced, pending a final decision in October 2025. Ultimately, Gatwick’s expansion is projected to create approximately 14,000 new jobs and inject £1bn annually into the regional economy. Weighing up whether such an economic boost outweighs the environmental impact could be swayed by the ability of Gatwick to successfully implement its high-tech upgrades.


Accidents and incidents

* 15 September 1936 – A British Airways Ltd de Havilland Express, de Havilland DH 86 on a night mail flight to Germany crashed on takeoff, killing the airline's chief pilot and two crew members.{{cite journal , url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202620.html , title=The Gatwick Accident, Commercial Aviation , journal=Flight International, Flight , date=24 September 1936 , page=327 , access-date=13 July 2011 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306205551/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202620.html , archive-date=6 March 2012 , url-status=live {{cite journal , url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202865.html , title=Gatwick and Mirabella, Commercial Aviation , journal=Flight , date=22 October 1936 , page=420 , access-date=13 July 2011 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306204444/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202865.html , archive-date=6 March 2012 , url-status=live * November 1936 – A British Airways Ltd Fokker F.XII, Fokker F 12 crashed in a wood {{convert, 4.5, mi south of Gatwick on its final approach to the airport under a low ceiling (cloud), ceiling in poor visibility, killing both pilots and seriously injuring the flight engineer.{{cite journal , url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%203281.html , title=The Crawley Accident, Commercial Aviation , journal=Flight , date=20 November 1936 , page=590 , access-date=13 July 2011 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306204709/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%203281.html , archive-date=6 March 2012 , url-status=live * 17 February 1959 – A
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Vickers Viscount 700, Vickers Viscount 794D (registration: TC-SEV) on an 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash, international charter flight crashed in heavy fog at Newdigate, Surrey, on its approach to Gatwick after striking trees. Fourteen of the 24 on board died, and Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes was amongst the survivors.{{cite web , url=http://www.surrey-constabulary.com/major_incidents.26.html , work=Surrey Constabulary History , title=Major Incidents , publisher=Robert Bartlett , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510113220/http://www.surrey-constabulary.com/major_incidents.26.html , archive-date=10 May 2009, url-status=dead * 5 January 1969 – A Boeing 727-100C, Boeing 727-113C (registration: YA-FAR) operating as Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 arriving from Frankfurt Airport, Germany, crashed into a house in Fernhill, West Sussex, Fernhill (near Horley, Surrey) in low visibility. The flaps were not extended to maintain flight at final-approach speed. 48 of the 62 on board died, in addition to two on the ground. * 28 January 1972 – A British Caledonian Vickers VC10, Vickers VC10-1109 (registration: G-ARTA) with no passengers aboard sustained severe structural damage as a result of a hard landing at Gatwick at the end of a short ferry flight from Heathrow, where the aircraft had been diverted due to fog at Gatwick. After touching down runway 08 and applying spoiler (aeronautics), spoilers and reverse thrust, the aircraft became airborne again, bounced twice and landed heavily. This resulted in a burst front wheel tyre, a separated wheel and a crumpled fuselage (immediately in front of and behind the wings).''Classic Airliner'' (VC10 – The story of a classic jet airliner: Disposal of British Caledonian VC10s), p. 60, Key Publishing, Stamford, 2015 A survey of the aircraft's damage revealed that its airframe was bent out of shape, requiring extensive repairs to restore airworthiness. Since the repairs were not cost-effective, the airline's management decided to cannibalization (parts), cannibalise the aircraft for spare parts before scrapping it at Gatwick in 1975. * 20 July 1975 – A British Island Airways (BIA) Handley Page Dart Herald#Specifications (Dart Herald 200), Handley Page Dart Herald 201 (registration: G-APWF) was involved in a runway accident while departing on a scheduled flight to Guernsey. The aircraft lifted off from runway 26 after a ground run of {{convert, 2490, ft, m and appeared airborne for {{convert, 411, ft, m, abbr=on (with its landing gear retracting) before the rear underside of the fuselage settled back onto the runway and brought the aircraft to a stop. An investigation concluded that the landing gear was retracted before the aircraft had become established in a climb and the flap setting and takeoff speed were incorrect. Although the aircraft incurred substantial damage, none of the 45 occupants were hurt. * 29 December 2014 – A
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Boeing 747-400 (Registration: G-VROM) suffered a loss of hydraulic fluid whilst en route to Las Vegas. Shortly after departure, an alarm prompted the crew to return to Gatwick, when they discovered that an improperly installed actuator had caused the right wing landing gear to not deploy. The aircraft successfully landed on 3 main landing-gear bogies and was returned to service on 11 January 2015. *19–21 December 2018 – A Gatwick Airport drone incident, major disruption to the airport was caused by reports of Unmanned aerial vehicle, drone sightings close to the runway. The runway was closed and all flights were suspended for about six hours on 19 December. The airport reopened at 03:01 the next morning until another reported sighting prompted another closing about 45 minutes later. As of 00:15 on 21 December, the airport was still closed with about 110,000 passengers and 760 flights affected. Officials called the drone flying a "deliberate act of disruption", but did not classify it as terrorism.{{cite news , title=Drones ground flights at Gatwick , url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754 , work=BBC News , date=20 December 2018 , access-date=20 December 2018 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220140742/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754 , archive-date=20 December 2018 , url-status=live The army was deployed to assist the police in resolving the incident.{{cite news , title=Gatwick Airport: Army called in amid drone chaos , url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46640033 , work=BBC News , access-date=20 December 2018 , date=20 December 2018 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220190111/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46640033 , archive-date=20 December 2018 , url-status=live The runway reopened with limited capacity around 06:00 that day. Authorities suspended flights again from 17:10 to 18:23 on 21 December. Later that day a man and a woman were arrested in connection with the incident; the pair were released without charge on 23 December with Sussex Police saying that they "are no longer suspects".{{cite news, url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/23/gatwick-drone-arrested-couple-released-without-charge/, title=Gatwick drone: Arrested couple are released without charge - as £50k reward is offered to catch culprit, first1=Martin, last1=Evans, first2=Izzy, last2=Lyons, first3=Charles, last3=Hymas, date=23 December 2018, access-date=23 December 2018, newspaper=The Daily Telegraph, location=London, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223113115/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/23/gatwick-drone-arrested-couple-released-without-charge/, archive-date=23 December 2018, url-status=live *26 February 2020 – A Titan Airways Airbus A320, Airbus A321-211 reported an engine surge after takeoff. A few moments later, the other engine stalled. The aircraft landed safely at Gatwick 11 minutes after takeoff. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch determined fuel contamination following defective maintenance had gone undetected for two days and caused the incident. Safety recommendations were made to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, and changes were made by organisations including Airbus and the International Air Transport Association.{{cite news , last=Dunford , first=Mark , date=5 May 2021 , title=Airbus' engine malfunction after takeoff from London Gatwick Airport 'could have had a catastrophic outcome', says chief , url=https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/airbus-engine-malfunction-after-takeoff-from-london-gatwick-airport-could-have-had-a-catastrophic-outcome-says-chief-3225854 , newspaper=The Crawley Observer , access-date=5 May 2021 , archive-date=5 May 2021 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505194714/https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/airbus-engine-malfunction-after-takeoff-from-london-gatwick-airport-could-have-had-a-catastrophic-outcome-says-chief-3225854 , url-status=live


See also

* Airports of London * List of airports in the United Kingdom and the British Crown Dependencies * List of busiest airports by passenger traffic * List of the busiest airports in Europe


Notes

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References


Citations

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Bibliography

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