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General Discussion Area / The problem with Gatwick
« on: 30 June 2017, 19:37:05 »
Is that it has only one runway which is running at over 90% capacity. On the outward flight the Ukranian International Airline's flight was 2 hours late arriving at Gatwick and then we spend 2 hours sat on the aircraft waiting for a takeoff slot and revised flight plan. So I arrived at about 9:30pm in Kyiv and then had a 4-5 hour car journey which made my 5:30am wakeup time and 6:50am train to Gatwick a long day. I always like to arrive in plenty of time where I have had travel problems before which have eaten into my safety buffer. Like Heathrow it desperately needs an extra runway.
I haven't used Gatwick for some time and on the return journey I was impressed with the passport control improvements where there was no queue and was through the facial recognition electronic barrier in seconds.
I haven't used Gatwick for some time and on the return journey I was impressed with the passport control improvements where there was no queue and was through the facial recognition electronic barrier in seconds.
