Gatwick Airport Articles
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- Face scanners launched at airport
- 23rd November 2009
- Face scanning technology brought in at Gatwick Airport will speed up passport checks, the government has said. Home secretary Alan Johnson officially launched the face scanners at the airport in West Sussex on Monday. He said the self-service technology ...
- Sale of Gatwick hits BAA results
- 02nd November 2009
- UK airports operator BAA has reported a large loss after the forced sale of Gatwick airport, and has also said that passenger numbers have fallen. BAA announced a pre-tax loss of £784.7m for the first nine months of the year, compared with a &pou...
- Gatwick building plan put on hold
- 21st October 2009
- A decision on whether to allow Gatwick airport to extend its North Terminal and build a new multi-storey car park has been put on hold. The government has told Crawley Borough Council it is considering whether to hold a public inquiry into the plans. ...
- BAA sale of Gatwick 'is due soon'
- 21st October 2009
- The sale of Gatwick Airport by BAA is due to happen soon, the airport operator's parent company has said. Spain's Ferrovial said it was in talks with more than one bidder for the airport which BAA has been ordered to sell by the UK Competition Commissi...
- BAA to challenge airport break-up
- 23rd May 2009
- BAA says it will appeal against the decision by the Competition Commission ordering it to sell three airports. The commission told BAA in March that it must sell Gatwick and Stansted airports and either Edinburgh or Glasgow airport. BAA said the rul...
- Air steward jailed for bomb hoax
- 23rd May 2009
- An Australian flight attendant has been jailed for 18 months for leaving a bomb hoax note on board a plane flying to Gatwick Airport. Matthew Carney, 23, wrote a note saying explosives had been planted on the Boeing 777 by the Taliban. It was found ...
- Airline staff ballot over strike
- 23rd May 2009
- A holiday operator faces strike action at the height of the summer season as the Unite union prepares to ballot more than 600 cabin crew over pay. A ballot will be held in July which could see Monarch Holidays staff walk out at Gatwick, Birmingham, Man...
- BAA Could Sell Gatwick
- 15th May 2008
- Experts believe that BAA might be forced to bring forward their planned sale of Gatwick Airport if the company is unable to complete the £10 billion refinancing of its debts. BAA, which operates Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, has recently...
- 300 Jobs Lost at Gatwick Airport
- 15th May 2008
- Aviance, who are one of the UK's biggest baggage handling firms, has had to make 308 full-time employees redundant from Gatwick Airport, claiming that they can no longer operate due to the punishing financial restrictions that govern UK airports. Unite, ...