When you are traveling to London by plane, you will want to go to the Gatwick North Airport.  This is the second largest and the second busiest airport after Heathrow in the United Kingdom.  In the world, Gatwick North Airport is the busiest single runway airport.  It is also ranked number two as the world’s busiest airport when you compare how many passengers they service in one year, and this makes them number seven internationally.  Gatwick North Airport is owned and run by the BAA.  The BAA also runs six other United Kingdom airports and is owned by an international consortium.  With such a company owned airport, you are sure to be pleased by the way this airport is operated and by the experience you will have while waiting for your flight or a ride to pick you up.

Gatwick North Airport has about two hundred different destinations that they take passengers to.  In 2006, there were over thirty-four million passengers and two hundred sixty-three thousand three hundred sixty-three airplane movements.  Then in 2007, Gatwick broke its history record of passengers handled with a total of thirty-five million passengers.  There were restrictions on access to Heathrow enshrined in the 1977 Bermuda II bilateral air services between the United Kingdom and the United States.  So, for the last thirty years, many of the flights for people traveling between the USA and the UK were flights into Gatwick.  This is probably the cause of the passenger flow increase for Gatwick North Airport.  Anyone will truly love flying from this airport.

Gatwick airport has a new hotel transfer service. The National Express Dot2Dot takes your right to your door, on average this journey takes an hour. There are busses and trains that run to and from the airport regularly, the airport also has a rail service called the Gatwick Express which serves as a great transport link into London. There are 8 car hire suppliers represented in the airport, such as Thrifty, Avis, Hertz, Dollar and Alamo. These companies offer competitive rates making it easy to find a cheap car hire deal.