From the UK, direct routes by Astraeus from London Gatwick and Manchester Airport to Sal ceased in April 2008, their website has not been taking reservations since May 2008.

ThomsonFly have opened additional routes from Manchester Airport and London Gatwick on Mondays and Fridays.

GIA operated Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 aircraft under wet lease arrangements with other airlines, and connected Kotoka International Airport in Accra with London Gatwick and Düsseldorf.

* 1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, ( LGW ) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

Several foreign airlines also serve Rinas Airport: Alitalia ( from Rome and Milan ), British Airways ( from London Gatwick Airport ), Austrian Airlines ( from Vienna ), Adria Airways ( Ljubljana ), Jat Airways ( Belgrade ), Lufthansa ( Munich ), Malev ( Budapest ), Olympic Air ( Athens ), Hemus Air ( Sofia ) and Turkish Airlines ( Istanbul ).

The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in Rochester, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at Gatwick Airport.

Many Brighton residents commute to work in London and destinations include London Victoria, London Bridge, and Gatwick Airport, with trains continuing to Bedford.

For three years during the First World War, while Aintree Racecourse was taken over by the War Office, an alternative race was run at Gatwick Racecourse, a disused course on land now occupied by Gatwick Airport.

Thameslink is a 50-station main-line route in the British railway system running north to south through London from Bedford to Brighton, serving both London Gatwick Airport and London Luton Airport.

Its headquarters is in Crawley, West Sussex, England, near Gatwick Airport.

Instead, Hellary and Fields tried to secure a licence from Gatwick Airport to John F. Kennedy Airport ( JFK ) in New York City.

Virgin Atlantic's head office, known as The Office, is located in the Business Quarter of Crawley, West Sussex, England, near Gatwick Airport.

The A23 north from Purley forms the Purley Way, which leads to Croydon's trading and industrial hinterland and also to the former Croydon Airport, the predecessor of the present London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport.

These included long term population movements out to Croydon, Kingston and Sutton ; the growth of heavy traffic on the A23 ( main road from central London to Gatwick Airport and Brighton ), and a lack of redevelopment sites in the town centre.

National Express services 025 from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport and Brighton, and 027 from Victoria to Chichester also serve Wallington.

The newly formed company consisted of British Airways and Iberia as well as their respective subsidiaries and has its main hubs at London Heathrow Airport and Madrid Barajas Airport as well as smaller hubs at Gatwick Airport and Barcelona El-Prat Airport.

Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.

As a result it is now regarded as a fashionable and desirable place to live for the British middle classes and is within easy commuting distance of the City of London and West End and the main railway termini for transport to airports at Heathrow and Gatwick and the south of England.

Gatwick Airport is located north of the centre of Crawley, West Sussex, and 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.

Gatwick is unique amongst London's airports in having a significant airline presence representing each of the three main airline business models: full service, low / no frills and charter.

* 1241: The name " Gatwick " is first recorded, as Gatwik, the name of a manor, on the site of today's airport ( under the northmost edge of North Terminal's aircraft taxiing area ).

( On the adjacent map, Gatwick Manor is at the northwest end of the racecourse ; its name is somewhat obscured by the map's paper being eroded over an old crease.

Comparing old and new maps seems to show that the modern Gatwick Manor hotel is not the old Gatwick Manor but a rename for another old building, near Lowfield Heath.

( The present Gatwick station is on the same site.

It is hoped that this will firmly establish Gatwick as the airport of choice for air travellers whose journey begins and / or ends in London and other parts of South East England.

It is expected that GIP will use its relationships to persuade new and existing airlines to consider launching additional routes from Gatwick, reinstating services suspended as a result of the global recession in the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2007 and Open Skies and / or expanding their existing flying programme from the airport in the near future.

Created by advertising agency Lewis Moberly, the new blue-and-white corporate identity is intended as a challenger brand to BAA and aims to differentiate Gatwick from rival Heathrow in support of majority owner GIP's corporate goal to establish Gatwick as London's airport of choice for passengers and airlines.

Crawley, a major settlement is 13 miles ( 21 km ) to the north, and Gatwick Airport is 16 miles ( 26 km ) in the same direction.

This is the case with Tokyo-Haneda ( HND ) and Tokyo-Narita ( NRT ); New York-JFK ( JFK ), New York-La Guardia ( LGA ); as well as London Heathrow ( LHR ) and London Gatwick ( LGW ).

It was also the year Silver City complemented its Gatwick — Le Touquet all-passenger operation with a vehicle ferry service.

It also ran services from Reading to Basingstoke and Reading to Gatwick Airport.

Gatwick Airport is an hour away to the north, Southampton Airport is an hour and a half away to the west, Chichester Airport is 30 minutes also to the west and Shoreham Airport is 45 minutes to the east.

Thomas Cook Airlines also fly to Kittilä Airport from Bristol & Gatwick Airport between November to April every year.

British Airways also directly competes with Virgin on the London Gatwick route currently operating ten flights per week on Boeing 777s.

In addition to firmly establishing itself as the airport's and West Berlin's leading charter airline, it also operated scheduled services linking Tegel with Amsterdam Schiphol, Saarbrücken and London Gatwick, its main operating base.

A few services also operated from Gatwick.

* The central ( Brighton ) side, comprising platforms 9 – 19, is the terminus for Southern ( including Gatwick Express ) services to Surrey and Sussex, including Gatwick Airport and Brighton on the Brighton Main Line and also the East Grinstead branch on the Oxted Line.

The Arora International Hotel Gatwick / Crawley also stands nearby.

This additional traffic required substantial improvements to the railway infrastructure, notably at Newhaven harbour, where electric lighting was installed, but also at Three Bridges, where a new freight marshalling yard was established, and at Gatwick and Haywards Heath, where passing sidings were constructed so that the frequent passenger trains would not be impeded by the slower-moving freight.

Unlike the Heathrow Express and the Gatwick Express, the service also calls at stations between the airport and the central London Terminus.

Services are also provided from Reading to Basingstoke, and to Gatwick Airport via Guildford and Dorking Deepdene ; and from Bristol to Newport and Cardiff.

They are also used on the Henley and Windsor branches, and on services between Reading and Redhill or Gatwick Airport, and between Newbury and Reading.

Airline was also occasionally filmed at Gatwick and Stansted airports.

The town centre was also included in the Northgate neighbourhood including the main shopping area of Crawley and the rail and bus stations as was the Manor Royal Industrial Estate to the north of the town and south of Gatwick Airport.

They also enabled Air Europe to launch new routes where there was insufficient traffic to support its larger Boeing 737 and Fokker 100 jet aircraft or where these aircraft were too big to provide a frequent schedule during the start-up phase, such as Gatwick — Düsseldorf and Gatwick — Jersey for instance.

BA's takeover of Dan-Air also left the Gatwick to Newcastle route vacant for the airline to assume, offerig a three-times daily service and requiring a third ATR 42.

However, it also imposed a ceiling on the maximum number of slots British Airways and its newly acquired subsidiary CityFlyer Express were allowed to hold at Gatwick.

BA also needed CityFlyer's slots to expand its Gatwick operation so that it could offer enough feeder services that would help it turn around its loss-making operation at the airport by improving long haul load factors.