Editing Gatwick Airport (section)

===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)
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!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
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| 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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