Airports in the London Region - London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, Croydon Airport, Gatwick Airport, RAF Northolt (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, Croydon Airport, Gatwick Airport, RAF Northolt, Expansion of London Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, London Luton Airport, London Biggin Hill Airport, London Southend Airport, Heston Aerodrome, London Air Park, Hendon Aerodrome, Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, London Heathrow Terminal 4, London Heathrow Terminal 1, Stapleford Aerodrome, Great West Aerodrome, Lydd Airport, Denham Aerodrome, London Heliport, Stag Lane Aerodrome, Elstree Airfield, Damyns Hall Aerodrome. Excerpt: Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK) is located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the centre of Crawley, West Sussex, and 45.7 km (28.4 mi) south of Central London. Previously known as London Gatwick, it is London's second largest international airport and second busiest by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. Gatwick furthermore is Europe's leading airport for point-to-point flights and has the world's busiest single-use runway averaging 52 aircraft movements an hour. In 2010, over 31.3 million passengers passed through Gatwick, making it the 9th largest in Europe by passenger traffic and the 12th busiest in terms of international passengers. Charter airlines generally prefer Gatwick over Heathrow as a base for London and the South East. From 1978 to 2008, many flights to and from the United States used Gatwick because of restrictions on the use of Heathrow implemented in the Bermuda II agreement between the UK and the US. (As of 2010, Delta Air Lines and US Airways are the only US carriers to continue serving Gatwick from the US.) The airport is a base for scheduled operators Aer Lingus, British Airways (BA), EasyJet, Flybe and Virgin Atlantic, as well as charter airlines including Monarch Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways. Gatwick is unique amongst London's a...