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Gatwick first airport awarded ‘zero waste to landfill’ accreditation
Gatwick has also been recertified as a Carbon Neutral airport through measures including using 100 per cent renewable electricity and Gold Standard carbon credits.
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London Gatwick Airport (LGW)
Website: www.gatwickairport.com
Gatwick Airport is the second busiest airport in the United Kingdom after London Heathrow. Located south west of London near the town of Crawley, London Gatwick has one operational runway and two passenger terminals.
Of all the London airports, Gatwick is unique in its provision of the three main business models: full service, no frills and charter.
Gatwick’s three main resident airlines are British Airways, EasyJet and Norwegian.
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Whitepaper: A History of Innovation at London’s Gatwick Airport
For many years, Gatwick Airport has been successfully transforming the airport experience to help achieve its ambitious strategy to be London’s transit hub of choice.
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Gatwick to invest £1 billion over the next five years
The airport is gearing up to explore how best to use its current capacity as its rival, Heathrow, seems set to be granted a controversial third runway.
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London Gatwick Airport to celebrate its 60th anniversary
Since it opened in 1958, passenger numbers in the UK have increased by more than 900 per cent.
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Drones will soon be banned from flying within 1km of airports in the UK
Another amendment to the Air Navigation Order 2016, through which the new rules are being carried, will require the pilots of drones weighing more than 250 grams to register and take a test - or face a £1,000 fine.
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Gatwick and easyJet in UK’s first end-to-end biometrics trial
Gatwick will use the trial to assess how long each interaction takes, how it simplifies the passenger journey, how passengers interact with the technology and how intuitive the process is in preparation for a large-scale roll out.
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Next-generation IT infrastructure goes into operation at Gatwick
As the number of passengers travelling by air continues to rise, so too does the data that accompanies those passengers. Many airports are currently using legacy IT infrastructure which, although being fit for purpose at the time of implementation, is now in need of a refresh. By future-proofing their IT…
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Community app: The cure for airport campus fragmentation
Although it looks like a single entity from the outside, airports are mini cities hosting a collection of independent organisations including airlines, ground handlers, retailers, restaurants, police, immigration agencies and hotels. Getting the right information to the right person at the right time is crucial for the airport ecosystem to…
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Gatwick Airport announces 1,200 vacancies from retail to ground handling
Many of the vacancies will be filled by workers from the surrounding counties, cementing Gatwick's position as an important local employer.
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Proposals have been submitted for Gatwick Airport station upgrade
The transformation of Gatwick Airport station is a step closer after a planning application was submitted for the major redevelopments…
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Gatwick first in the world to trail autonomous shuttle bus for airside staff
Gatwick has said the trial could be first step toward widespread use of autonomous vehicles on airfields across the world and could reduce vehicle numbers, emissions and costs.
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Gatwick marks five years of consecutive month-on-month growth
Three million passengers travelled through Gatwick in February, with long haul routes driving a 37.2 per cent cargo increase
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easyJet transforms ground services at Gatwick by splitting handling and equipment
In one of the biggest ground services change in recent years, easyJet has separated its Gound Handling from its Ground Support Equipment at London Gatwick in a new contract with Rushlift GSE.
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HS4Air: Proposed high speed rail links Britain’s biggest airports
A proposed high-speed rail version of the M25 could one day link Heathrow and Gatwick.
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How did Britain’s airport fare against the Beast from the East?
British readers will be well aware of chaos the Beast from the East has wrought on the UK roads, but how did airports perform in a country that seldom sees extreme weather?
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