LGW welcomes four new Norse Atlantic long-haul routes

London Gatwick, part of VINCI Airports’ network, is welcoming a further four new transatlantic routes from Norse Atlantic this summer – alongside two announced last week – making Gatwick the airline’s biggest base. London Gatwick passengers will be able to fly to seven destinations with Norse from September. Alongside its existing New York route, the […]

Gatwick: additional focused consultation on its Northern Runway plans

Gatwick will start a focused statutory public consultation on Tuesday 14 June 2022 about its plans to bring the airport’s existing Northern Runway into routine use alongside its Main Runway. The consultation will focus on the airport’s updated highway design, which has changed in response to feedback received during the Autumn 2021 consultation.  It will […]

BA pulling out of Gatwick ‘throwing staff on scrapheap’

Workers suffering serious mental health issues over prospect of job cuts says GMB Union. British Airway’s behaviour as it pulls out of Gatwick Airport amounts to ‘throwing us on the scrapheap, says GMB members. Britain’s flagship carrier announced they are pulling out of Gatwick with threats of hundreds of redundancies and transferring staff to one of its sister companies, Gatwick Ground Services (GGS). […]

UK school children tune-in to ‘Aviation Live’

Thirty-five thousand students from three hundred UK schools tuned into ‘Aviation Live’ yesterday (4 February) – in a real-time broadcast designed to inspire young people to consider a career in aviation. Children from as far away as Scotland and Cornwall tuned into the broadcast at Oakwood School, Horley, and put questions to airport staff in […]