London Gatwick Airport

ICAO EGKK51.1487°N 0.1857°W62 m / 202 ftLarge airport

London Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK) is a large airport in London, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1958. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,317 m (10,883 ft). It is operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings. In 2023 it handled 40.9 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1958–1969

1958

OpenedLondon Gatwick Airport opens.

05 JAN 1969

DisasterAriana Afghan Airlines Flight 701.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08R/26L078° / 258° · LIT

LENGTH3,317 m10,883 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

08L/26R078° / 258° · LIT

LENGTH2,561 m8,402 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2023

34.2M

35.4M

38.1M

40.3M

43.1M

45.5M

46.1M

46.6M

10.2M

6.3M

32.8M

40.9M

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Routes

234 destinations · 80 countries

Year-round161

Seasonal112

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LGW. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Gatwick Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

62 airlines · destinations from LGW

Hub airlines5

BABritish Airways70 DYNorwegian Air Shuttle13 A0BA EuroFlyer —Global Airlines W9Wizz Air UK

Passenger57

U2easyJet121 BYTUI Airways72 LSJet2.com43 W6Wizz Air18 VYVueling9 N0Norse Atlantic Airways4 FRRyanair4 XQSunExpress4 CAAir China3 TCAir Tanzania3 TSAir Transat3 BTAirBaltic3 ATRoyal Air Maroc3 G9Air Arabia2 AIAir India2 P4Air Peace2 —Air Sierra Leone2 CZChina Southern Airlines2 XCCorendon Airlinesseasonal · 2 EWEurowings2 TPTAP Air Portugal2 WSWestJetseasonal · 2 A3Aegean Airlinesseasonal · 1 UXAir Europa1 AFAir France1 MKAir Mauritius1 UMAir Zimbabwe1 AWGAnimawings1 RCAtlantic Airwaysseasonal · 1 GRAurigny Air Services1 J2Azerbaijan Airlines1 JDBeijing Capital Airlines1 MUChina Eastern Airlines1 DECondor Flugdienst1 OUCroatia Airlinesseasonal · 1 EKEmirates1 ETEthiopian Airlines1 —FlyErbil1 GFGulf Air1 I2Iberia Express1 FIIcelandair1 B6JetBlue Airwaysseasonal · 1 KQKenya Airways1 KMKM Malta Airlines1 BJNouvelair1 PCPegasus Airlines1 HHQanot Sharq1 QRQatar Airways1 SVSaudia1 SQSingapore Airlines1 BQSky Alps1 GQSky Express1 TUTunisair1 TKTurkish Airlines1 T5Turkmenistan Airlines1 URUganda Airlines1 HYUzbekistan Airways1

Former hub of Air Europe, Air Links, Air Safaris (UK), Airworld, Astraeus Airlines, British Airtours, British Caledonian, British Island Airways, British Island Airways (1982), British United Airways, British United Island Airways, Cal Air International, Caledonian Airways, Caledonian Airways, CityFlyer Express, DAS Air Cargo, Dan-Air, Donaldson International Airways, Falcon Airways, Fly Salone, GB Airways, JMC Air, Laker Airways, Monarch Airlines, Norwegian Air International, Norwegian Air UK, Norwegian Long Haul, Peach Air, Strategic Airlines Luxembourg, Transglobe Airways, Virgin Sun Airlines, XL Airways UK, Zoom Airlines Limited and Jersey Airlines.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LGW. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers40.9M (2023)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#51of 3,974 · #11 Europe · #2 GB Longest runway3,317 m10,883 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#699of 29,858 · #94 Europe · #2 GB Elevation62 m202 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,848of 43,403 · =4,311 Europe · =339 GB AgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =898 Europe · #183 GB Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =135 Europe · =41 GB

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

6 channels

APPAPP126.825

ATISATIS136.525

CLDCLNC DEL121.955

GNDGND121.805

TWRTWR124.230

DirDirector118.950