<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Gatwick International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The land on which Gatwick Airport stands was first developed as an aerodrome in the late 1920s. The Air Ministry approved commercial flights from the site in 1933, and the first terminal, "The Beehive", was built in 1935. Scheduled air services from the new terminal began the following year. During the Second World War, the airport was taken over by the military and was known as RAF Gatwick. After the war, the airport returned to its civilian capacity. Major development work at the airport took place during the 1950s. The airport buildings were designed by Yorke Rosenberg Mardall between 1955 and 1988.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In the 1960s, British United Airways (BUA) and Dan-Air were two of the largest independent British airlines at Gatwick, with the former establishing itself as the dominant scheduled operator at the airport as well as providing a significant number of the airport's non-scheduled services and the latter becoming its leading provider of inclusive tour charter services.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The Ministry of Aviation encouraged further rapid growth of charter flights at Gatwick by instructing airlines to relocate regular charter flights from Heathrow.Following the takeover of BUA by Caledonian Airways at the beginning of the following decade, the resulting airline, British Caledonian (BCal), became Gatwick's dominant scheduled airline during the 1970s. While continuing to dominate scheduled operations at Gatwick for most of the 1980s, BCal was also one of the airport's major charter airlines until the end of the 1970s (together with Dan-Air, Laker Airways, and British Airtours).</p>
<p class="blog-para">In As a result of conditions imposed by Britain's Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the takeover of BCal by the then newly privatised British Airways (BA) at the end of the 1980s, Dan-Air and Air Europe assumed BCal's former role as Gatwick's dominant scheduled short-haul operator, while BA continued in BCal's erstwhile role as the airport's most important scheduled long-haul operator. These moves resulted in BA becoming Gatwick's dominant airline by the turn of the millennium. BA's subsequent decision to de-hub Gatwick provided the space for EasyJet to establish its biggest base at the airport and become its dominant airline. In BAA Limited (now Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited) and its predecessors, BAA plc and the British Airports Authority, owned and operated Gatwick from April 1, 1966, to December 2, 2009.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4">Ground Transport Gatwick International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Gatwick has set goals of 40% public transport use by the time annual passenger traffic reaches 40 million (in 2015) and 45% by the time it reaches 45 million.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The M23 connects with London's orbital motorway, the M25, 9 miles (14 km) north; this provides access to much of Greater London, the South East, and beyond, and the M23 is the main route for traffic to the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Gatwick is also accessible from the A23, which serves Horley and Redhill to the north and Crawley and Brighton to the south. The A217 provides access northward to the town of Reigate. The airport has long- and short-stay car parks at the airport and off-site, although these are often full in the summer. Local restrictions limit parking at Gatwick.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is accessible from a motorway spur road at junction 9A of the M23, which links to the main M23 motorway 1 mile (1.6 km) east at junction 9.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Gatwick Airport, also called London Gatwick, is a big international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, about 29.5 miles (47.5 km) south of Central London.It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after Heathrow Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The existing airports&mdash;Tegel Airport, Sch&ouml;nefeld Airport, and Tempelhof Airport&mdash;were ageing and becoming increasingly congested due to rising passenger numbers. To ensure the economic viability of the project, they pursued the single airport concept: the new airport would become the sole commercial airport for Berlin and Brandenburg. They planned to close Tegel, Sch&ouml;nefeld, and Tempelhof upon opening the new airport, then ban commercial aviation from any other airport in Brandenburg.</p>
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