Now Gatwick needs another runway
Gatwick might need a second runway to cope with a 30% rise in passengers by 2045.
That was one of the findings in a ‘masterplan’ released by the airport this week.
Under a long-standing local agreement, the airport is not allowed to add an additional runway before 2019.
But the masterplan shows that the airport is likely to need a second runway within the next decade.
This is because passenger numbers are forecast to rise from the current 34 million a year to 40 million by 2022 and to 45 million by 2030.
"We need to anticipate that, in the long term, a second runway at Gatwick may be needed," said chief executive Stewart Wingate.
The airport’s owners, Global Infrastructure Partners, have already spent £750 million improving its two existing terminals.
They plan to invest another £1 billion in the airport to allow for growth.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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