Gatwick travel guide

Gatwick Airport is London's second largest airport and the second busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. It is also the world's busiest single runway airport, and the world's 22nd busiest airport in terms of passengers per year (7th in terms of international passengers). It is located in Crawley, West Sussex (originally Charlwood, Surrey) 2.7 nm (5 km or 3 miles) north of the town centre, 24.7 nm (46 km or 28 miles) south of London and 21.6 nm (40 km or 25 miles) north of Brighton.
With about 200 destinations the airport handled over 34 million passengers with 263,363 aircraft movements in 2006. Charter airlines generally do not operate from Heathrow and therefore use Gatwick as their main base for London and the Southeast. For the past 30 years many flights to and from the USA have also used Gatwick because of the restrictions on access to Heathrow that were enshrined in the 1977 Bermuda II bilateral air services agreement between the UK and the US. The airport is a major operational base for British Airways, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic.
London Gatwick has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P528) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. (...) more....

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