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Virgin Atlantic: We do see a return to Gatwick

Air
Rob Gill
27 July 2020

Virgin Atlantic is confident of a return to Gatwick when demand for air travel recovers to pre-pandemic levels.

Gatwick only catered for 569,000 passengers during the first six months of 2021

The airline, which has just secured a £1.2 billion financial package to see it through the crisis, announced it was quitting Gatwick and making more than 3,000 redundancies in May as it took dramatic action to stem losses caused by the grounding of flights.

But during TTG’s Restart Travel: Build Back Better online seminar last week, Virgin Atlantic’s chief commercial officer Juha Jarvinen told TTG editor Sophie Griffiths it could eventually return to Gatwick.