London Gatwick Airport
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London Gatwick International Airport
Discover the UK's second biggest international airport, the London Gatwick International Airport, as well as its facilities and features, top destinations to fly to from the airport and with which airlines you can do this.
About London Gatwick International Airport
London Gatwick International Airport (IATA: LGW) is a major international airport in Crawley, United Kingdom. Gatwick Airport is the second busiest international passenger traffic airport in the UK, after London Heathrow Airport. London Gatwick is a hub for British Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
The airport is the second busiest airport in the world to only operate one runway. In 2018, Gatwick Airport saw passenger use of 46 million.
London Gatwick International Airport Location
The airport is located 29.5 miles (47,5 km) south of Central London:
Facilities
Gatwick Airport is full of facilities and services that offer passengers ease and comfort.
Facilities Include:
A variety of dining and shopping options available from popular high street cafe restaurants, upmarket bistros, and a wide variety of shops.
Free WiFi Internet Access
Accessible facilities for disabled passengers
Family facilities (baby changing, kids zones and more)
Shower Rooms
Business Services with workstations and internet access
Free drinking water dispensers
Baggage Carts
ATMs
Currency Exchange
Chapel and prayer room
Lounges Include:
Club Aspire Lounge (North and South Terminals): Available facilities include a wide menu of food and drinks, business and resting zones, free WiFi, separate family areas, and charging points.
Clubrooms (North and South Terminals): offer WiFi, disabled access, newspapers and magazines, television, food and beverages
My Lounge (North and South Terminals): offers WiFi, newspapers and magazines, game room, food and beverages, television, disabled access
No. 1 Lounge (North and South Terminals): passengers can enjoy food and beverages, a bistro with table service, WiFi, air conditioning, TV, family room, conference facilities and more
Regus Express Business Lounge (South Terminal): passengers can enjoy non alcoholic beverages, showers WiFi, newspapers and magazines, a telephone, TV
Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse (North Terminal): beverages (alcoholic and non alcoholic), children's area, WiFi, spa services, disabled access, internet stations and more
Book Lounge Passes for London Gatwick Airport
Did you know that you can buy lounge passes for London Gatwick Airport with Alternative Airlines? You can purchase them for Club Aspire Lounge, No1 Lounges, Clubrooms, My Lounge, plus additional products: brunch packages at Grain Store Cafe and Premium Gatwick Security.
Runways
Gatwick International Airport currently has one runway which is actively used, with an additional runway in case of emergencies and heavy traffic.
Terminals
North Terminal
Gatwick's North Terminal was the largest construction project south of London in the 1980s, and is home to the world's largest passenger air bridge. The North Terminal houses all of easyJet's flights, alongside largely long-haul flights. Alongside easyJet, the other airlines operating from Gatwick's North Terminal are Aeroflot, Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways, Air China, Air Transat, Rwandair, TUI, Westjet, Icelandair, China Eastern, Emirates, and Georgian Aiways.
South Terminal
The South Terminal deals with most of the airport's traffic and is the original terminal of the airport - it was first opened on 9th June 1958. All British Airways flights now fly to and from the South Terminal.
Airlines that fly to Gatwick International Airport
The following table consists of all the airlines that fly passenger services from Gatwick Airport:
| AIRLINE | DESTINATION |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | *Seasonal:* Athens |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin, Knock |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Fez, Marrakech, Tangier |
| airBaltic | Riga, Tallinn |
| Air China | Shanghai–Pudong |
| Air Europa | Madrid |
| Air Malta | Cagliari, Malta |
| Air Transat | Toronto–Pearson *Seasonal:* Montréal–Trudeau, Vancouver |
| Aurigny | Guernsey |
| Austrian Airlines | *Seasonal charter:* Innsbruck |
| Azores Airlines | *Seasonal:* Ponta Delgada |
| Belavia | Minsk |
| BH Air | *Seasonal:* Burgas, Varna *Seasonal charter:* Sofia (begins 21 December 2019) |
| British Airways | Algiers, Alicante, Amsterdam, Antalya (resumes 30 April 2020), Antigua, Barbados, Bergamo, Bermuda, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Cancún, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Funchal, Genoa, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Grenada, Jersey, Kingston, Lanzarote, Las Vegas, Málaga, Malta, Marrakech, Mauritius, Naples, New York–JFK, Nice, Orlando, Paphos, Porto, Port of Spain, Providenciales, Punta Cana, Rome–Fiumicino, St. Kitts, St. Lucia–Hewanorra, Salzburg, San José de Costa Rica, Seville, Tampa, Tenerife–South, Tirana, Tobago, Turin, Venice, Verona *Seasonal:* Almeria, Bari, Cagliari, Cape Town, Catania, Cologne/Bonn, Dalaman, Geneva, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kos, Larnaca, Lima, Lyon, Malé, Menorca, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Thessaloniki, Toronto–Pearson, Vienna |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong |
| China Airlines | Taipei–Taoyuan |
| China Eastern Airlines | Shanghai–Pudong |
| Croatia Airlines | *Seasonal:* Split |
| Delta Air Lines | Boston (begins 22 May 2020) |
| easyJet | Aarhus, Agadir, Alicante, Almería, Amsterdam, Ancona, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin–Tegel, Bologna, Bordeaux, Budapest, Catania, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Funchal, Geneva, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Granada, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Hurghada, Innsbruck, Inverness, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kraków, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Marrakech, Marseille, Milan–Linate, Milan–Malpensa, Montpellier, Munich, Murcia, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Porto, Prague, Reykjavík–Keflavík, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Sofia, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Zurich *Seasonal:* Ajaccio, Antalya, Aqaba, Bastia, Biarritz, Bodrum, Brindisi, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Figari, Friedrichshafen,[129] Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Izmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Klagenfurt, Kos, La Palma, La Rochelle, Menorca, Mykonos, Östersund, Preveza, Pula, Rhodes, Rovaniemi, Salzburg, Santiago de Compostela, Santorini, Split, Tel Aviv, Tivat, Turin, Varna, Volos, Zadar, Zakynthos |
| easyJet Europe | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Lyon, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Toulouse, Venice |
| Emirates | Dubai–International |
| Enter Air | *Seasonal charter:* Hurghada (begins 20 December 2019), Sharm El Sheikh (begins 22 December 2019) |
| Finnair | *Seasonal:* Ivalo, Kittilä |
| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi |
| Iberia Express | Madrid |
| Icelandair | Reykjavík–Keflavík |
| Iraqi Airways | Baghdad1, Erbil, Sulaimaniyah |
| Jazeera Airways | Kuwait City |
| Montenegro Airlines | *Seasonal:* Tivat |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Alicante, Barcelona, Bergen, Boston, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Helsinki, Los Angeles, Madrid, Málaga, Miami, New York–JFK, Orlando, Oslo–Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, San Francisco, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tampa, Tenerife–South, Trondheim *Seasonal:* Austin, Catania, Chania, Chicago–O'Hare, Corfu, Denver, Dubrovnik, Faro, Kefalonia, Rovaniemi, Santorini, Seattle/Tacoma, Split, Tromsø |
| Pegasus Airlines | *Seasonal:* Dalaman |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Rossiya | Saint Petersburg |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
| RwandAir | Kigali2 |
| Ryanair | Alicante, Cork, Dublin, Shannon |
| Smartwings | Prague |
| Swiss International Air Lines | *Seasonal:* Geneva |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| Titan Airways | *Seasonal charter:* Banjul, Bergen, Chambéry, Grenoble, Turin |
| TUI Airways | Agadir, Alicante, Boa Vista, Cancún, Enfidha, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, La Palma, Liberia, Málaga, Malta, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Montego Bay, Paphos, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, St. Lucia–Hewanorra, Sal, Sharm El Sheikh (resumes 16 February 2020), San José del Cabo, Tenerife–South *Seasonal:* Alghero, Almeria, Antalya, Aruba, Barbados, Bodrum, Burgas, Catania, Chania, Colombo–Bandaranaike, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Girona, Goa, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Ivalo, İzmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Kavala, Kefalonia, Kittilä, Kos, Krabi, Kuusamo, Lamezia Terme, Langkawi, Larnaca, La Romana, Menorca, Naples, Olbia, Orlando/Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Pattaya–U-Tapao, Phuket, Phu Quoc, Podgorica, Porto Santo, Preveza, Pula, Reus, Rhodes, Rijeka, Rovaniemi, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Split, Thessaloniki, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos *Seasonal charter:* Chambéry, Geneva, Memmingen (begins 21 December 2019), Sofia, Toulouse, Turin |
| Tunisair | Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Ankara, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen *Seasonal:* Antalya, Bodrum |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev–Boryspil |
| Virgin Atlantic | Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Havana (ends 7 June 2020), Montego Bay, New York–JFK (resumes 21 May 2020), Orlando, St. Lucia–Hewanorra (ends 7 June 2020), Tobago |
| Vueling | Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Florence, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rome–Fiumicino |
| WestJet | Calgary, Toronto–Pearson *Seasonal:* Halifax, Vancouver |
| Wizz Air | Bucharest, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Kraków (begins 23 February 2020) |
Top Destinations
The following table contains some of the popular and most-serviced destinations flying from Gatwick Airport:
| RANK | AIRPORT | TOTAL PASSENGERS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona | 1,555,323 |
| 2 | Dublin | 1,347,017 |
| 3 | Málaga | 1,089,976 |
| 4 | Amsterdam | 1,085,024 |
| 5 | Dubai–International | 1,029,841 |
| 6 | Madrid | 1,026,627 |
| 7 | Orlando | 876,408 |
| 8 | Geneva | 828,602 |
| 9 | Alicante | 802,860 |
| 10 | Copenhagen | 798,591 |
| 11 | Palma de Mallorca | 782,401 |
| 12 | Edinburgh | 740,904 |
| 13 | Tenerife–South | 704,520 |
| 14 | Venice–Marco Polo | 700,128 |
| 15 | Faro | 700,128 |
| 16 | Rome–Fiumicino | 695,278 |
| 17 | Jersey | 670,763 |
| 18 | Nice | 620,834 |
| 19 | Glasgow | 620,383 |
| 20 | Belfast–International | 595,943 |
| 21 | New York–JFK | 593,620 |
| 22 | Milan–Malpensa | 577,949 |
| 23 | Stockholm–Arlanda | 498,756 |
| 24 | Paris–Charles de Gaulle | 474,869 |
| 25 | Reykjavík–Keflavík | 467,058 |
How to get to Gatwick International Airport
By Train
Gatwick Airport is easily accessible from Central London, Brighton, Portsmouth and other places via train. The Gatwick Express rail service is the fastest way to get to and from Central London from Gatwick Airport (30 minute journey) and services run every day between 5am and 00:30am.
By Car
Gatwick Airport has car parking to suit every need and budget. There are also car rental facilities from AVIS, SIXT, Budget, Enterprise, Europcar, Hertz, National and Alamo.
By Coach and Bus
There are number of different coach and bus services passengers can use to get to and from Gatwick Airport, which include: National Express, megabus.com, easyBus, and local bus services from Metrobus.
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