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 ).

* September 1935: A new railway station called Gatwick served by two trains an hour on the Victoria – Brighton line opened.

This was part of a plan by the Department for Transport to increase capacity on the Brighton Main Line that saw peak hour services extended from Gatwick to Brighton and Eastbourne from December 2008.

This was part of a plan by the Department for Transport to increase capacity on the Brighton Main Line that saw peak hour services extended from Gatwick to Brighton and Eastbourne from December 2008.

Broadfield is served by various bus services including the 24 hour Crawley Fastway bus service to Gatwick.

Manor Royal is served by the Crawley Fastway 24 hour bus service, providing regular services to Gatwick Airport, Crawley and Three Bridges Stations, as well as many other local areas.

On Sundays trains are every hour, running to Maidstone West in one direction or Three Bridges ( via Tonbridge and Gatwick Airport ) in the other.

A proposal has been put forward to increase the trains at rush hour due to the Gatwick Express merging with Southern,

* 2 trains per hour to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport and East Croydon

* 2 trains per hour to London Bridge via Gatwick Airport and East Croydon

The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to Brighton and one train per hour to Bedford via Gatwick Airport, East Croydon and London Bridge.

First Great Western provide two services per hour between Reading and Redhill, one of which continues to Gatwick Airport.