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Gatwick unveils runway plan to boost capacity to 75 million

Air
Rob Gill
25 August 2021

Gatwick has revealed plans to bring its second runway into “routine use” as a way to increase capacity at the Sussex airport.

Gatwick is seeking permission to bring its standby runway into routine use

The airport is proposing that its northern runway could be used by departing aircraft by repositioning its centre line further north by 12 metres, which would enable both runways to be operational at the same time.

Gatwick said this plan would be a “low impact way of unlocking new capacity by using existing runway infrastructure” and would be “in line” with government requirements for UK airports to make the most of their existing runways.