London Gatwick International Airport
Lgw or london gatwick is the second largest of the main london airports and is the second busiest airport in the united kingdom in terms of passenger traffic.
London gatwick international airport. It is the second busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the uk after heathrow airport. It covers a total area of 674 hectares. It has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. Spread across five terminals and just 14 miles.
34 million passengers passed through the airport in the year 2012. The airport consists of two terminals north and south is connected to the motorway network via the m23 and has its own railway station with southern and thameslink trains serving london victoria and london bridge stations respectively as well as there being a dedicated gatwick express shuttle to and from london victoria. Gatwick airport iata code. The gatwick express is the fastest way into c entral london taking 30 minutes to london victoria station.
Operated by gatwick airport limited and owned by global infrastructure partners london gatwick airport is the second largest international airport after london heathrow. Gatwick airport also known as london gatwick is a major international airport near crawley in west sussex southeast england 29 5 miles south of central london. Heathrow lhr heathrow airport london s main hub is also one of the world s busiest airports with 80 1 million passengers coming through in 2018. The airport has two terminals the north terminal.
Despite being one of the busiest airports in the world year after year london heathrow lhr is heavily slot constricted making it hard for airlines to grow their capacity. Gatwick airport lgw is located south of london. The airport acts as a base for british airways air lingus virgin atlantic and norwegian air shuttle. Gatwick is the ninth busiest airport in europe.
Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s. Airport cars gatwick is the official taxi concession. Located some 30 miles south of central london half an hour by train just outside the town of crawley in west sussex gatwick airport opened as an aerodrome for commercial flights in the early 1930s. London gatwick airport lgw information location and transport second only to heathrow as the uk s busiest airport london gatwick airport welcomes over 40 million passengers every year.
This has created a pressing need for alternate london airports a need that s primarily met by london gatwick lgw.