Editing Gatwick Airport (section)

==Statistics==

===Overview===
In 2015, Gatwick became the first single-runway airport to handle more than 40 million passengers annually.<ref name="GAL_2015Stats">{{cite press release |url=http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2016/16-01-13-gatwick-sets-new-global-passenger-record-underlining-expansion-case.aspx |title=Gatwick sets new global passenger record for a single runway airport, underlining expansion case |date=13 January 2016 |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117222331/http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2016/16-01-13-gatwick-sets-new-global-passenger-record-underlining-expansion-case.aspx |archive-date=17 January 2016 |url-status=live |publisher=Gatwick Airport}}</ref> By 2016, [[EasyJet]] accounted for over 40% of Gatwick's total passengers.<ref>{{cite news| last=Calder| first=Simon| title=Gatwick gears up for the big switch| newspaper=[[The Independent]]| location=London| date=23 April 2016| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/gatwick-terminal-swap-simon-calder-travel-a6997351.html| access-date=11 May 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524164213/http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/gatwick-terminal-swap-simon-calder-travel-a6997351.html| archive-date=24 May 2016| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LGW_Nos_2016">{{cite web |url=http://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/about-gatwick/company-information/gatwick-by-numbers/ |title=Gatwick by numbers [2016] |publisher=Gatwick Airport |date=December 2016 |access-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312061623/http://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/about-gatwick/company-information/gatwick-by-numbers/ |archive-date=12 March 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> When ranked by [[World's busiest airports by passenger traffic|global passenger traffic]], Gatwick is the 35th busiest internationally and the eighth [[List of the busiest airports in Europe|busiest airport in Europe]]. Gatwick is the world's leading [[low-cost carrier|low-cost]] airport<ref>{{cite web |url=http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/norwegian-strengthens-london-gatwick--singapore-changi-lcc-hub-position-long-haul-low-cost-part-2-341042 |title=Norwegian strengthens London Gatwick & Singapore Changi LCC hub position: long haul low cost Part 2 – Gatwick and Changi are both major LCC hubs |publisher=CAPA Centre for Aviation |date=27 April 2017 |access-date=29 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427051129/https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/norwegian-strengthens-london-gatwick--singapore-changi-lcc-hub-position-long-haul-low-cost-part-2-341042 |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> and until March 2017 had the world's busiest single-use runway,<ref group=nb>by passengers; by movements until 2016</ref> with a maximum of 55 aircraft movements per hour.<ref name="FutureofBAA">{{cite report| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCdxKqrKUNsC&pg=PA112| title=The Future of BAA: Fourth Report of Session 2007–08| isbn=978-0-215-51413-4| date=February 2008| publisher=[[The Stationery Office]]| author=House of Commons Transport Committee| at=Ev. 112}}</ref><ref name="Times_of_India">{{cite news| last1=V| first1=Manju| date=13 May 2017| title=Now, Mumbai world's busiest airport with only one runway| newspaper=[[The Times of India]]| location=[[Mumbai]]| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/now-mumbai-worlds-busiest-airport-with-only-one-runway/articleshow/58652790.cms| url-status=live| access-date=13 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513081650/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/now-mumbai-worlds-busiest-airport-with-only-one-runway/articleshow/58652790.cms| archive-date=13 May 2017}}</ref>

46.1 million passengers passed through Gatwick in 2018, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year. [[Atlantic Ocean|North Atlantic]] and other long-haul<ref group=nb name="north">excluding North Atlantic</ref> traffic recorded increases over the previous year of 24.4% and 12.7% to 4.04 million and 4.65 million passengers, respectively. UK,<ref group=nb name="channel">including the [[Channel Islands]] and the [[Isle of Man]]</ref> European charter,<ref group=nb name="NorthAfrica">including North Africa</ref> Irish and European scheduled passenger traffic recorded decreases over the previous year of 8.7%, 5.7%, 1.1% and 0.9% to 3.73 million, 2.88 million, 1.67 million and 29.11 million, respectively. Air transport movements decreased by 0.7% to 283,926. Cargo volume increased by 16.1% to 112,676 metric tonnes.<ref name="LGW_2018_GAL_Stats"/>

Compared with a year earlier, January to March 2019 passenger numbers increased by 4% to 9.675 million (an increase of 374,700 over January to March 2018). The following changes were recorded amongst individual passenger traffic categories: North Atlantic traffic +15.3% (784,200 passengers); European scheduled traffic +3.9% (5.649 million passengers); other long-haul<ref group=nb name="north"/> traffic +3.2% (1.277 million passengers); European charter<ref group=nb name="NorthAfrica"/> traffic +2.1% (710,900 passengers); Irish traffic +1.6% (412,000 passengers) and UK<ref group=nb name="channel"/> traffic -0.2% (841,700 passengers). Air transport movements increased by 3.3% to 62,392. Cargo volume increased by 7.2% to 27,390 metric tonnes, which was driven by a 7.5% increase in overall long-haul passenger traffic. The growing popularity of the GatwickConnects flight connections assistance service provided by the airport for self-connecting passengers was driven by additional passengers changing flights at Gatwick whose journey originated in [[Edinburgh]] (+80%), [[Jersey]] (+58%) and [[Belfast]] (+50%).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2019/2019-04-16-q4-passenger-figures.aspx |title=Q4 Passenger Figures: Record-breaking start to 2019 at Gatwick |date=16 April 2019 |access-date=4 May 2019 |archive-date=22 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922023402/http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/2019/2019-04-16-q4-passenger-figures.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Busiest routes===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:align"
|+ Busiest international routes from LGW (2024)
! Rank 
! Destination
! Passengers
! Change 2023 / 24
|-
| 1
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Barcelona-El Prat Airport|Barcelona, Spain]]
| 1,350,954
| {{increase}} 5.84%
|-
| 2
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Malaga Airport|Malaga, Spain]]
| 1,197,738
| {{increase}} 6.75%
|-
| 3
| {{flagicon | IRE}} [[Dublin Airport|Dublin, Republic of Ireland]] 
| 1,053,277
| {{decrease}} 17.71%
|-
| 4
| {{flagicon | ITA}} [[Rome Fiumicino Airport|Rome-Fiumicino, Italy]] 
| 927,798
| {{increase}} 16.39%
|-
| 5
| {{flagicon | UAE}} [[Dubai International Airport|Dubai, United Arab Emirates]] 
| 925,000
| {{decrease}} 4.61%
|-
| 6
| {{flagicon | PRT}} [[Faro Airport|Faro, Portugal]]
| 853,429
| {{increase}} 0.75%
|-
| 7
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Alicante Airport|Alicante, Spain]] 
| 787,710
| {{increase}} 6.81%
|-
| 8
| {{flagicon | ITA}} [[Milan Malpensa Airport|Milan-Malpensa, Italy]] 
| 778,472
| {{increase}} 12.75%
|-
| 9
| {{flagicon | SWI}} [[Geneva Airport|Geneva, Switzerland]] 
| 764,195
| {{increase}} 3.52%
|-
| 10
| {{flagicon | TUR}} [[Antalya Airport|Antalya, Turkey]] 
| 739,804
| {{increase}} 6.55%
|-
| 11
| {{flagicon | NLD}} [[Amsterdam Airport|Amsterdam, Netherlands]] 
| 729,229
| {{decrease}} 12.29%
|-
| 12
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Tenerife South Airport|Tenerife-South, Spain]] 
| 729,018
| {{increase}} 2.60%
|-
| 13
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Palma de Mallorca Airport|Palma de Mallorca, Spain]] 
| 725,857
| {{increase}} 6.98%
|-
| 14
| {{flagicon | ESP}} [[Madrid Airport|Madrid, Spain]] 
| 636,616
| {{decrease}} 4.80%
|-
| 15
| {{flagicon | MAR}} [[Marrakesh Menara Airport|Marrakesh, Morocco]] 
| 605,656
| {{increase}} 20.75%
|-
| 16
| {{flagicon | DEN}} [[Copenhagen Airport|Copenhagen, Denmark]] 
| 593,613
| {{decrease}} 0.33%
|-
| 17
| {{flagicon | TUR}} [[Istanbul Airport|Istanbul, Turkey]] 
| 586,369
| {{decrease}} 35.26% 
|-
| 18
| {{flagicon | USA}} [[New York JFK Airport|New York, United States]] 
| 526,369
| {{increase}} 2.45%
|-
| 19
| {{flagicon | FRA}} [[Nice Airport|Nice, France]] 
| 520,953
| {{decrease}} 10.89%
|-
| 20
| {{flagicon | TUR}} [[Dalaman Airport|Dalaman, Turkey]] 
| 503,953
| {{increase}} 4.70%
|-
|-  class="sortbottom"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:right;"| ''Source: [[Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)|CAA Statistics]]''<ref name="auto2023">{{Cite web |title=Annual airport data 2024 |url=https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analysis/uk-aviation-market/airports/uk-airport-data/uk-airport-data-2024/annual-2024/ |access-date=1 April 2025 |website=www.caa.co.uk}}</ref>
|}

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:align"
|+ Busiest domestic routes from LGW (2024)
! Rank 
! Destination
! Passengers
! Change 2023 / 24
|-
| 1
| {{flagicon | Scotland}} [[Edinburgh Airport|Edinburgh]] 
| 476,152
| {{increase}} 3.64%
|-
| 2
| {{flagicon | Scotland}} [[Glasgow Airport|Glasgow]] 
| 455,095
| {{decrease}} 2.37%
|-
| 3
| {{flagicon | Northern Ireland}} [[Belfast International Airport|Belfast-Intl]] 
| 444,142
| {{decrease}} 8.33%
|-
| 4
| {{flagicon | Jersey}} [[Jersey Airport|Jersey]] 
| 381,611
| {{increase}} 11.31%
|-
| 5
| {{flagicon | Northern Ireland}} [[Belfast-City Airport|Belfast-City]] 
| 277,800
| {{increase}} 18.98%
|-
| 6
| {{flagicon | Guernsey}} [[Guernsey Airport|Guernsey]] 
| 254,601
| {{decrease}} 17.22%
|-
| 7
| {{flagicon | Scotland}} [[Inverness Airport|Inverness]] 
| 222,417
| {{decrease}} 0.25%
|-
| 8
| {{flagicon | Scotland}} [[Aberdeen Airport|Aberdeen]] 
| 196,469
| {{increase}} 0.80%
|-
| 9
| {{flagicon | Isle of Man}} [[Isle of Man Airport|Isle of Man]] 
| 165,643
| {{increase}} 3.32%
|-
| 10
| {{flagicon | England}} [[Newquay Airport|Newquay]] 
| 83,252
| {{decrease}} 0.83%
|-  class="sortbottom"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:right;"| ''Source: [[Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)|CAA Statistics]]''<ref name="auto2023">{{Cite web |title=Annual airport data 2024 |url=https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analysis/uk-aviation-market/airports/uk-airport-data/uk-airport-data-2024/annual-2024/ |access-date=1 April 2025 |website=www.caa.co.uk}}</ref>
|}

===Traffic===
Gatwick handled 186,172 passengers during its first seven months of operation after the 1956–58 reconstruction; the annual number of passengers passing through the airport was 368,000 in 1959 and 470,000 in 1960.<ref name="Gatwick_History">"Gatwick Airport History", Business & Community Reference Guide for in and around Crawley 2008/09, Wealden Marketing, 2008, p. 85</ref><ref name="GoldenGatwick_9">''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 9</ref> Passenger numbers reached one million for the first time during the 1962–63 fiscal year,<ref group=nb>1 April 1962 to 31 March 1963</ref> with [[British United Airways]] (BUA) accounting for four-fifths.<ref>''Gatwick Airport: The first 50 years'', Woodley, C., The History Press, Stroud, 2014, pp. 86, 158</ref> The 1.5 million mark was exceeded for the first time during the 1966–67 fiscal year.<ref group=nb>1 April 1966 to 31 March 1967</ref> This was also the first time more than half a million scheduled passengers used the airport.<ref>''Gatwick Airport: The first 50 years'', Woodley, C., The History Press, Stroud, 2014, pp. 158/9</ref> Gatwick accommodated two million passengers for the first time during the 1967–68 fiscal year<ref group=nb>1 April 1967 to 31 March 1968</ref> and 3 million in the 1969–70 fiscal year,<ref group=nb>1 April 1969 to 31 March 1970</ref> with BUA accounting for nearly half.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukaccs.info/gatwick/profile.htm |title=Airport Profile: Brief History |publisher=Ukaccs.info |access-date=15 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323024227/http://www.ukaccs.info/gatwick/profile.htm |archive-date=23 March 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 9 & 10</ref> By the early 1970s, 5 million passengers used Gatwick each year, with a record 5.7 million during the 1973–74 fiscal year.<ref group=nb>1 April 1973 to 31 March 1974</ref> During that period, [[British Caledonian]] accounted for approximately half of all charter passengers and three-fourths of scheduled passengers.<ref name="GoldenGatwick_10">''Golden Gatwick—50 Years of Aviation'', Chapter 10</ref> Within a decade annual passenger numbers doubled, to 10 million; they doubled again, to over 20 million, by the late 1980s.<ref name="Gatwick_History"/><ref name="Express2">''The Gatwick Express'', p. 42</ref><ref name="... Bloomers"/><ref name="... up"/> By the turn of the millennium, Gatwick handled more than 30 million passengers annually.<ref name="Gatwick_History"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right; margin:auto;"
! Year!!Number of<br />passengers<br /><ref group=nb>number of passengers including both domestic and international</ref>!! Percentage<br />change !! Number of<br />aircraft<br />movements<br /><ref group=nb>number of movements represents total aircraft takeoffs and landings during each year</ref>!!Freight<br />(tonnes)
|-
!2000
|32,068,540 || – || 260,859 || 318,905
|-
!2001
|31,181,770 || {{decrease}}{{0}}2.8% || 252,543 || 280,098
|-
!2002
|29,627,420 || {{decrease}}{{0}}5.0% || 242,379 || 242,519
|-
!2003
|30,005,260 || {{increase}}{{0}}1.3% || 242,731 || 222,916
|-
!2004
|31,466,770 || {{increase}}{{0}}4.9% || 251,195 || 218,204
|-
!2005
|32,775,695|| {{increase}}{{0}}4.2% || 261,292 || 222,778
|-
!2006
|34,163,579 || {{increase}}{{0}}4.2% || 263,363 || 211,857
|-
!2007
|35,216,113 || {{increase}}{{0}}3.1% || 266,550 || 171,078
|-
!2008
|34,205,887 || {{decrease}}{{0}}2.9% || 263,653 || 107,702
|-
!2009
|32,392,520 || {{decrease}}{{0}}5.3% || 251,879 || 74,680
|-
!2010
|31,375,290 || {{decrease}}{{0}}3.1% || 240,500 || 104,032
|-
!2011
|33,674,264 || {{increase}}{{0}}7.3% || 251,067 || 88,085
|-
!2012
|34,235,982 || {{increase}}{{0}}1.7% || 246,987 || 97,567
|-
!2013
|35,444,206 || {{increase}}{{0}}3.5% || 250,520 || 96,724
|-
!2014
|38,103,667 || {{increase}}{{0}}7.5% || 259,692 || 88,508
|-
!2015
|40,269,087 || {{increase}}{{0}}5.7% || 267,760 || 73,371
|-
!2016
|43,119,628 || {{increase}}{{0}}7.1% || 280,666 || 79,588
|-
!2017
|45,516,700 || {{increase}}{{0}}5.2% || '''285,969''' || 96,983
|-
!2018
|46,075,400 || {{increase}}{{0}}1.1% || 283,926 || '''112,600'''
|-
!2019
|'''46,574,786''' || {{increase}}{{0}}1.1% || 282,896 ||  110,358
|-
!2020
|10,171,867 || {{decrease}}{{0}}78.2% || 79,489 || 26,063
|-
!2021
|6,260,072 || {{decrease}}{{0}}38.5% || 52,000 || 11,623
|-
!2022
|32,800,000 || {{increase}}{{0}}423.9% || 217,524 || 36,407
|-
!2023
|40,894,242 || {{increase}}{{0}}24.7% || 253,047 || 61,123
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="5" style="text-align:right;"| <sup>''Source 2000–2016: [[UK Civil Aviation Authority]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airports/Datasets/ |title=Aircraft and passenger traffic data from UK airports |publisher=[[UK Civil Aviation Authority]] |date=11 March 2017 |access-date=11 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211070518/http://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airports/Datasets/ |archive-date=11 February 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref></sup><br /><sup>''Source 2017: Gatwick Airport Limited''<ref name="LGW_2017_GAL_Stats">{{cite press release |url=http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/all/gatwicks-busiest-ever-december.aspx |title=Gatwick's busiest ever December closes record-breaking year as 45.6m passengers travel through in 2017 |date=12 January 2018 |access-date=13 January 2018 |publisher=Gatwick Airport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117180604/http://mediacentre.gatwickairport.com/press-releases/all/gatwicks-busiest-ever-december.aspx |archive-date=17 January 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref></sup>
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