Gatwick Airport

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London Gatwick Airport ( engl. Gatwick Airport earlier official London Gatwick Airport ) is an international airport about 40 kilometers south of London. He has more than 33 million passengers a year after London Heathrow Airport is the second largest of the London airports and the United Kingdom, as well as at 2011, the tenth largest airport in Europe.

Transport links

The airport is located in the Borough of Crawley in West Sussex, about 40 miles south of London and about the same distance north of Brighton.

The South Terminal is located directly above the Gatwick Airport Railway Station. From here there are regular train services to London. Go to Victoria station the Express Gatwick Express runs every 15 minutes without stopping, as well as " on hiatus " an InterCity the Southern Railway, which additionally arriving in East Croydon and Clapham Junction is making a stop in the seaside resort of Brighton, but only slightly longer needs. After London Bridge and St Pancras International and Luton Airport are excellent links with First Capital Connect on the Thameslink route.

The airport has a bus station ( Coach Station), which consist of regular and good long-distance bus connections. There are regular links to Heathrow Airport.

Operator

Operator of the airport until 2009, the BAA ( formerly British Airports Authority ), which operates among others, the London Heathrow and London Stansted. BAA was the subject of an investigation by the UK competition authorities, which issued a preliminary finding in August 2008, the BAA could force a sale of Gatwick, Stansted and Glasgow. In this framework, BAA announced in September 2008 its decision to seek a buyer for Gatwick. In December 2009 the airport for 1.5 billion pounds of Global Infrastructure Partners, the operator of London City Airport was sold.

In June 2010 it was announced that the airport will be renamed under the new ownership company in the context of an extensive restructuring in Gatwick Airport. The current official name suffix London accounted for. However, the airport has been promoting the change with the slogan "Your London Airport".

Infrastructure

Airstrip

Gatwick is the most used airport in the world with only one start and runway. Plans to build a second runway start and led to violent protests of local residents who fear more noise and exhaust fumes. With the local government, a contract was completed, which prevents the build up to at least 2019.

Terminal building

North Terminal

The construction of the North Terminal began in 1983; it was the largest construction project south of London in the 1980s. Opened in 1988, Queen Elizabeth II of this terminal.

South Terminal

The main hall and the central pier of the South Terminal was built 1956-1958. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II opened the airport on June 9, 1958. In 1962, two additional piers were opened. In 1983, the North Pier was demolished and in its place a circular satellite terminal was built, which was joined by the first automatic cable car of Great Britain with the Main Terminal. The railway was closed down and replaced by a new connecting with treadmills. The main hall has been repeatedly rebuilt and expanded; next to the arrival area in the northern part of the South Terminal and check- in desks south of it, there are two large areas with shops and cafes: The " Gatwick Village " on the first floor is accessible to all visitors, the sprawling duty-free area after the security check is more like a mall than a waiting room.

" The Beehive "

The first opened in 1936 Airport Terminal Building, The Beehive ( Beehive ), was designed by Frank Hoar, Marlow and Lovett and was the first fully integrated terminal building in the world. It was used until the 1950s. During construction of the new South terminal and the railway station was relocated, so the original terminal building was cut off from the rest of the airport. As a result, we used it as a terminal building for helicopter flights. Later, it served as the administration building, 1989 at GB Airways had its headquarters as the company in January 2008 were adopted in the built in Art Deco style buildings of EasyJet was, it remained with the former owners of Gibraltar Airways, the Bland Group. The building is since 1996 in the Grade II * Listed Building and is one of twelve such structures is located in Crawley.

Airlines and destinations

Gatwick has numerous routes to European cities and holiday destinations, and various long-haul connections. Be operated, for example, Dublin, Minsk, Faro, Dubai, Toronto and Barbados.

The airport is Heathrow, the main base for British Airways, which operated from here, for example, various destinations in the Caribbean, as well as easyJet and Monarch Airlines, Thomson Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines, are not allowed to start at Heathrow as charter airlines.