London Gatwick flying to 90% of pre-pandemic destinations this Easter
This Easter school holiday, London Gatwick Airport will fly to 90% of the destinations it offered passengers during the same period in 2019.
This Easter school holiday, London Gatwick Airport will fly to 90% of the destinations it offered passengers during the same period in 2019.
London Gatwick - part of VINCI Airports' network - will serve 177 destinations this Easter, compared to 197 in the same period in 2019 (90%), with total flight volumes recovering to 86%.
The most popular destinations for Easter getaways include Barcelona, Dublin and Malaga, while Dubai, New York and Orlando top the long-haul charts.
Gatwick’s busiest day for departures is expected to be Thursday 6 April, while Easter Monday is predicted to be the busiest day overall.
Over the past two weeks, Gatwick has welcomed several new routes, including Air India flights to Goa, Kochi, Amritsar and Ahmedabad, Air China operations to Beijing, British Airways services to Las Vegas, Aruba and Georgetown, and Wizz Air will fly to Istanbul and Nice.
Delta Air Lines will begin operating from London Gatwick to New York next week, while later this month (23 April), Lufthansa will arrive at Gatwick with daily flights to Frankfurt.
Jonathan Pollard, Chief Commercial Officer, London Gatwick Airport said: “Following a strong recovery in 2022, we are delighted to see passenger demand continue into the Easter holidays.
“We’ve recently welcomed a number of fantastic new airlines and destinations, with more on the horizon. This is great news for passengers across London and the South East. Our recovery is continuing strongly and we're very much looking forward to welcoming passengers over the Easter period and beyond.”
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2019 Easter holiday dates were 05/04 to 21/04
2023 Easter holiday dates are 31/03 to 16/04
London Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and is a vital piece of national infrastructure that helps drive both the regional and national economy. More than 40 airlines fly from the airport to over 150 short-haul and more than 45 long-haul destinations. The airport is focused on rebuilding and growing sustainably in the long term. It has ambitious plans to be a net zero airport by 2030 and increase capacity by bringing its Northern runway into routine use. VINCI Airports owns a 50.01% stake in the airport, with Global Infrastructure Partners managing the remaining 49.99% interest.
The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports operates more than 65 airports in 12 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and manages airports by providing its investment capacity and its know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and managing their operations and environmental transition. VINCI Airports is the first airport operator to have committed to a global international environmental strategy in 2016, to achieve the goal of net zero emission across its entire network by 2050.
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GIP manages the remaining 49.99% interest in Gatwick and is a leading independent infrastructure fund manager that makes equity and debt investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport, water/waste and digital infrastructure sectors. GIP manages US$84 billion for its investors. Its 46 portfolio companies have combined annual revenues of US$61 billion and employ nearly 100,000 employees. For more information on GIP please visit http://global-infra.com
