Gatwick Airport

The Gatwick Airport is the second largest airport in the country. It is also one of the busiest airports in the world. It handles of over 30 million flights every year with the record mark of 35 million flights in the year of 2008. It is the 25th busiest airport in the world connecting major cities all over the world. It is a chief point of transit for passengers travelling from the east to the west.

A flyer on a vacation to the west from the east usually prefers to take the route via London than around Japan because it is more interesting and More European countries can be visited in the name of transit in this way. Therefore the Gatwick Airport plays hosts to millions of transit passengers every year. Apart from this there are the tourists who visit London each year. London is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is rich in culture and art and people from all over the world each year come to visit London. Tourists are pouring into London at any time of the year and the Gatwick Airport manages over millions of tourists per year that arrive in London. The airport has a single run way as well as a standby run way. The standby runway is only used when the primary run way is out of commission for some reason or is over used. The airport however mainly operates on the main runway. For this reason Gatwick Airport is known as one of the busiest single runway airports in the world today.

Gatwick Airport is being used as base for Charter airlines. Also many flights from the US use Gatwick Airport as base. This is because of the various restrictions on the other airports of the UK. The airport is primarily owned by the BAA. However it has been decided that that BAA would sell the Gatwick Airport . This is due to a report that was presented by the competition commission that was against the domination of BAA. Some of the largest airport groups of the UK are not planning to take over the air port and the airport is currently valued at 1.8 billion pounds by the regulatory commission. The name Gatwick comes from the manor that stood on the sight were the airport is now. The manor is said to have existed in the year of 1241. There have been many modifications that have been made to the airport over the years. This is mainly because of the inflow of traffic into the airport. A circular pier was added to the airport to accommodate for the growing population at the airport. This was said to be the first of its kind as it was the first automated people mover system in an airport of the country. This is today replaced by walkways which are more convenient and efficient. There are two terminals at the air port which are north and south. The Gatwick Airport has every facility that a tourist passenger or a transit passenger would require.