| | Gatwick Airport Facts and Figures - Gatwick is the biggest (and busiest) single runway airport in the world (gatwick has two terminals, but only one runway)
- Gatwick is the second biggest airport in the UK (after heathrow)
- And the sixth biggest international airport in the world
- Gatwick's Air Traffic Control Tower is one of the tallest in Europe
- There are two terminals - South Terminal, opened in 1958 and North Terminal, opened in 1988
- The runway is only 3361 metres long and 45 metres wide
- There are approximately 1500 light fittings on the runway and 6500 light fittings on the taxi-ways
- Gatwick handles around 31 million passengers a year, but this is expected to rise to around 40 million by 2008
- 70 airlines fly from Gatwick airport to about 200 destinations worldwide
- Gatwick provides direct employment for around 28,000 people
- The airport covers an area of approximately 1687 acres
- The transit (monorail) has completed more than 1.5 million miles since the north terminal opened in 1988 - equivalent to two trips to the moon
- There are approximately 7000 trolleys in circulation at the airport
- There are 475 toilets at gatwick airport
- There are than 900 rail services a day to and from the airport
- Gatwick airport has won the Travel Weekly 'Best UK Airport' award seven years in a row
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