Hundreds of passengers queued before 6am at Heathrow and Gatwick this morning as airports expect their busiest day of the year, with the easing of global travel restrictions predicted to trigger a stampede as the Government’s traffic light system comes into force today. Britain’s five busiest airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester and Luton – … Read more
Hundreds of passengers queued before 6am at Heathrow and Gatwick this morning as airports expect their busiest day of the year, with the easing of global travel restrictions predicted to trigger a stampede as the Government’s traffic light system comes into force today. Britain’s five busiest airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester and Luton – … Read more
Gatwick increased its Government borrowing by £75m over the last week to shore up its finances during the extended travel shutdown By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 23 January 2021 Gatwick Airport increased its Government borrowing by £75million over the last week to shore … Read more
Budget airline Norwegian axes its long-haul network, leading to 1,100 job losses at Gatwick Airport The carrier said it will operate a ‘simplified business structure’ Its entire Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet has been grounded since March 2020 Customers with affected bookings will be contacted by the airline and refunded By City & Finance Reporter for … Read more
Investors back extra runway at Gatwick as expansion would add 90 extra flights per day VINCI Airports and infrastructure fund GIP have committed to funding the next stage of a scheme to upgrade Gatwick’s ‘standby’ northern runway It would be used alongside Gatwick’s existing runway as a so-called ‘runway-lite’ By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail … Read more
British Airways suspends ALL flights from Gatwick airport and will furlough ‘many more’ staff as new Covid lockdown bites BA said it will be ‘moving many more colleagues’ onto Job Retention Scheme Second shutdown of BA flights at Gatwick after one that followed first lockdown The airline said it will massively scale back all flights … Read more
Wizz Air plotting expansion that could see it operating up to one in five flights from Gatwick within five years By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 24 October 2020 Wizz Air is plotting a multi-billion-pound expansion that could see it operating up to one … Read more
British Airways will scale back its operations at Gatwick under a radical transformation plan to bounce back from the pandemic, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Sources said that new BA chief executive Sean Doyle will operate fewer flights from Gatwick once the airline emerges from the crisis. BA will shift business to Heathrow, where … Read more
Businesses in Crawley fear thousands of job losses at Gatwick Airport could cripple the town centre and devastate their livelihoods. Analysis by the aviation union Unite predicts more than 6,000 people based at the airport – employed directly by the airport, airlines, or in supply chains – have already lost their jobs or are at … Read more
Businesses in Crawley fear thousands of job losses at Gatwick Airport could completely cripple the town centre and devastate their livelihoods. Analysis by the aviation union Unite predicts more than 6,000 people based at the airport – employed directly by the airport, airlines, or in supply chains – have already lost their jobs or are … Read more