Area Guide For Gatwick

Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK) is located 3.1 mi (5.0 km) north of the centre of Crawley, West Sussex, and 29.5 mi (47.5 km) south of Central London. Also known as London Gatwick, it is London's second largest international airport and second busiest by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. Furthermore, Gatwick is Europe's leading airport for point-to-point flights and has the world's busiest single-use runway averaging 52 aircraft movements per hour. Its two terminals – North and South – cover an area of 810,000 sq ft (75,000 m) and 1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m) respectively. In 2011, over 33.6 million passengers passed through Gatwick. Charter airlines generally prefer Gatwick over Heathrow as a base for London and the South East of England. From 1978 to 2008, many flights to and from the United States used Gatwick because of restrictions on the use of Heathrow implemented in the Bermuda II agreement between the UK and the US.. Cessation of 34 years' continuous operations at Gatwick by Delta Air Lines on 17 April 2012 left US Airways as the only US carrier still serving Gatwick. The airport is a base for scheduled operators Aer Lingus, British