Gatwick increases its Government borrowing by £75m

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

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

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

Devastating toll of travel crisis: Just two flights took off from Gatwick airport in an entire DAY

Where no one is bob, bob, bobbin along: Just TWO flights took off from Gatwick airport yesterday as images show terminal deserted apart from a robin A Ryanair flight to Dublin and an Air Baltic flight to Tallinn, Estonia, took off  The West Sussex airport normally handles 800 flights a day in total A third … Read more

Gatwick Airport will open coronavirus testing facility this month

Gatwick Airport will open coronavirus testing facility this month offering ‘fast and accurate’ swab tests for passengers with next-day results Bosses hope results from ‘fast and accurate’ PCR swabs will rescue industry   The service could also reduce the mandatory quarantine period for arrivals  Gatwick passengers and staff will be charged £60 while the public will … Read more

British Airways suspends Gatwick flights, will furlough more staff

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

British Airways suspends all flights from Gatwick airport and will furlough ‘many more’ staff

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

No-frills airline Wizz Air plots swoop for 1 in 5 Gatwick flights

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 BST, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 24 October 2020 Wizz Air is plotting a multi-billion-pound expansion that could see it operating up to one … Read more

British Airways to cut flights from Gatwick and shift to Heathrow

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

Royal Air Maroc plane with 139 passengers ONE SECOND of careering off runway at Gatwick at 225mph

Royal Air Maroc plane with 139 passengers on board came within ONE SECOND of careering off the runway at Gatwick at 225mph in near botched take off, report reveals Royal Air Maroc plane had 120m of runway to spare before it became airborne Pilots either failed to input or accidentally deleted flight data before take … Read more