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In 2015, Gatwick became the first single-runway airport to handle more than 40 million passengers annually. [220] By 2016, EasyJet accounted for over 40% of Gatwick's total passengers. [221] [75] When ranked by global passenger traffic, Gatwick is the 35th busiest internationally and the eighth busiest airport in Europe.
Timeline of Gatwick Airport. Gatwick Airport was in Surrey until 1974, when it became part of West Sussex as a result of a county boundary change. The original, pre- World War II airport was built on the site of a manor in the parish of Charlwood. The land was first used as an aerodrome in the 1920s, and in 1933 commercial flights there were ...
On 23 July 2013, Gatwick unveiled its proposals for a second runway to the south of the existing runway and airport boundary. If approved, the new runway could open by 2025 and cost between £5 billion and £9 billion, depending on the option chosen – i.e., a new runway 3,395 ft (1,035 m) south of the existing runway, a new runway less than ...
Side view of the North Terminal of Gatwick Airport. Located in West Sussex, Gatwick map2 is the second-busiest airport in the United Kingdom, the eighth-busiest in Europe, and the second-busiest single-runway airport in the world. It handles flights to more destinations than any other UK airport [14] and is the main base of easyJet, [15] the UK ...
Gatwick Airport, though, wasn’t always around. Just over a mile and a half southwest of Croydon’s modern hotels lies a Neoclassical hotel at the side of the busy Purley Way road.
— London Gatwick LGW (@Gatwick_Airport) August 22, 2024 Underlying earnings were up 13.9% year on year to £268 million, with net profit for the period up 33.8% at £106 million.
Gatwick Airport, the second busiest airport after Heathrow. Manchester Airport, the third busiest airport in the UK and busiest of the non-London airports. This is a list of the busiest airports in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man ranked by total passenger traffic, compiled from Civil Aviation Authority data from 2006 to 2023.
Gatwick Airport drone incident. Between 19 and 21 December 2018, hundreds of flights were cancelled at Gatwick Airport near London, England, following reports of drone sightings close to the runway. With 140,000 passengers and 1,000 flights affected, it was the biggest disruption at Gatwick since its closure following the 2010 volcano eruptions ...