London Gatwick Airport (LGW)

Gatwick is the second busiest airport in thr UK after Heathrow, situated south of the M25, next to the M23. It provides national and international flights with a selection of different airlines. It is a large airport and is easy to travel to this airport. There is a regular train service form central London to Gatwick, a bus service and also easy access by car, with many short and long stay parking bays. I have never had any problems with staff at Gatwick and always found the experience easy and simplified. The departure lounges have plenty of shops to buy duty free products and also plenty of restaurants for meals. The airport is full of ...

Gatwick South terminal Was an experience, I found it a little daunting the first time but with a little practice and because most times I have been going to the same destination it got easier with time. But going on my first experience with this airport it was a little confusing when entering to find a vast sea of airline boards for as far as the eye could see in front of you and not that many signs to show you which airlines were which until you walked the length of the place to get your bearings. I could see someone of a confused nature finding it a bit trying to say the least. Maybe some signs or something would be a good idea to point the way to airlines ...

It’s ironic that I lived for 25 years right next door to Heathrow Airport but have flown out of London Gatwick most of the time. Blame the vagaries of package holidays. My most recent holiday was also from LGW. It’s not a bad little airport… hell, it’s not all that little, either! Having forever lived in the shadow of Heathrow, it seems to have accepted its role as London’s second airport, and rather than try to do the impossible and compete with Heathrow, it’s tried to improve what it has. To some extent it’s succeeded, but there are a lot of improvements that could still be made. This trip was perhaps not the best one to judge Gatwick by – we ...