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Basic Information
Currently London's number two airport after Heathrow, Gatwick Airport (LGW) is
just 48 km / 30 miles south of the centre of London, in West Sussex. Close to
both Crawley and Horley, London Gatwick Airport features just one runway, which
serves more than 35 million passengers annually and around 200 different
world-wide destinations.
London Gatwick Airport is amongst the busiest
and largest single-runway airports in Europe, with almost 300,000 aircraft
movements each year. Gatwick's two terminals are known as the North and South
terminals and are home to many major airlines, such as British Airways, First
Choice Airways, easyJet, Monarch Airlines, Thomsonfly and Virgin Atlantic.
Nearby Airports
- London Heathrow Airport -
LHR - London's busiest airport, and the busiest airport in the world in
terms of international passengers.
- London Stansted Airport -
STN - London's third largest airport, handling mainly low cost carriers. No
transatlantic flights currently operate from STN; American Airlines briefly
offered a service from JFK which has been discontinued.
- London Luton (LTN) - London's second low-cost airport, and the 5th busiest
airport in the UK.
- London City Airport (LCY) - London's smallest airport, and also the closest
airport to downtown and the financial district. LCY can only handle small
aircraft, and currently services only operate to destinations in Europe, though
British Airways intends to begin an all business-class service to New York in
2009.
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Travel to Gatwick from Heathrow |
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Transportation from Heathrow to Gatwick |
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Gatwick transfers to Birmingham |
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Gatwick to Manchester |
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Gatwick Airport to Stansted Airport |
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London hotel to Gatwick
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Cruise transfer Gatwick to Southampton
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Cruise transfer Gatwick to Dover
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Cruise transfer Gatwick to Harwich
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