The Gatwick Airport is London's second largest and second most busy airport of UK after Heathrow. It is said to be the busiest single runway airport and the sixth busiest in entire Europe on the basis of passenger per year terms.
It is situated in Crawley, West Sussex; the London Gatwick has a special permission called CAA Public Use Aerodrome License, which allows flights to be used for civic, convey of passengers or for flying instruction. In the year 2005, the airport managed around 32.6 million travelers, flying to approximately two hundred places.
Mainly Charter planes do not have permission to fly from Heathrow so most of them use Gatwick as their air base. Most flights which ply to and fro from USA mainly use Gatwick because of limitations placed on transatlantic operations from Heathrow.
It is situated in Crawley, West Sussex; the London Gatwick has a special permission called CAA Public Use Aerodrome License, which allows flights to be used for civic, convey of passengers or for flying instruction. In the year 2005, the airport managed around 32.6 million travelers, flying to approximately two hundred places.
Mainly Charter planes do not have permission to fly from Heathrow so most of them use Gatwick as their air base. Most flights which ply to and fro from USA mainly use Gatwick because of limitations placed on transatlantic operations from Heathrow.