Leaving from Gatwick? Here's a little guide to London's second busiest airport
If you have chosen London as your destination for your next vacation, then chances are you will land at Gatwick Airport. [...]
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If you chose London as your next vacation destination, then chances are you will land at theGatwick Airport. In spite of what you might think, LGW is not the airport of low-cost airlines much less can it be considered a secondary airport: not only low-cost airlines land and take off here, but also "majors" such as Emirates, Delta, and British Airways itself; with annual traffic of over 40 million passengers, it is not only one of the busiest airports in the United Kingdom but also the second busiest in London, behind Heathrow.
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How many terminals does Gatwick have? And how does one get around? What airlines fly into this airport? How do I get to central London? In today's article we answer all these questions.
Where it is located
Gatwick Airport is located about 45 km south of London, near Crawley, West Sussex County.
How many terminals it has and how they are connected
LGW has two terminals, the north terminal and the south terminal. Passengers have the ability to move between the two terminals, in as little as 3 minutes, with a free shuttle.
Which carriers fly to Gatwick
LGW is easyJet's main hub but, as mentioned, this is not to be considered a secondary airport; the list of airlines flying into this airport is quite long. Air China, Air Mauritius, Air Transat, Azerbaijan Airlines, China Eastern, Delta, easyJet, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Freebird, Icelandair, jetBlue, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Saudia, Swiss, TUI e WestJet fly from the North Terminal.
From the South Terminal, on the other hand, fly: Aegean Airlines, Air Arabia Maroc, Air Baltic, Air Europa, Air India, Air Peace, Aurigny, Badr Airlines, BH Air, British Airways, China Southern, Corendon Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Dan Air, Eastern Airways, easyJet, Enter Air, Iberia Express, Jet2, KM Malta, Maleth Aero, Norwegian, Nouvelair, Norse Atlantic, Ryanair, SkyAlps, Sky Express, Smartwings, SunExpress, TAP, Titan Airways, TUI, Tunisair, Turkish Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Volotea, Vueling e Wizz Air.
How to get to London from Gatwick, and vice versa
Unless you want to spend a lot of money on cabs, you have two alternatives (which are not bad at all, in fact): train or bus.
If your final destination is London, then you need to choose the Gatwick Express: within 30 minutes you will be in the city center, at Victoria Station; there are two departures per hour, and the ticket costs about £20. If, however, you are headed to other parts of England, you might opt for the Southern train, which connects LGW with several cities in the southeast such as Brighton, Horsham, Southampton, Eastbourne, and Portsmouth; or, alternatively, you could board the Thameslink which, in addition to making several stops at some of London's central stations, goes as far as Brighton. The train station is located at the South Terminal of Gatwick Airport.
The other alternative, as mentioned, is the bus: you can choose between the National Express, the Flixbus, megabus, e The Airline. Again, it depends on your final destination: if you are headed to London, then you will have to take National Express or megabus; if you are headed, on the other hand, to Oxford, your choice will be The Airlines; and if, finally, your destination is Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff, Canterbury or Newport, then the best options are Flixbus or megabus.
