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3 unusual facts about Gatwick airport


2008 UEFA Champions League Final

A flight to Moscow, which was meant to leave Gatwick Airport for Domodedovo International Airport at 0555 BST to arrive just in time for the match, was cancelled after six hours of delay.

Estepona

It is 45 km away and has direct flights to Manchester, London Gatwick and London Luton.

Victor Winding

He appeared in The Faceless Ones, a Doctor Who serial broadcast from April to May 1967 starring Patrick Troughton in which he played the character called 'Spencer' an airline pilot at Gatwick Airport where his identity was taken over by a chameleon.


Croydon Vocational Tower

These train operating companies provide services to the South Coast, Bedford, Manchester, Luton and Luton Airport, Gatwick Airport, and fast services to London Victoria and London Bridge.

Gas to liquids

On 12 October 2009, a Qatar Airways Airbus A340-600 conducted the world's first commercial passenger flight using a mixture of kerosene and synthetic GTL fuel in its flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Doha.

Hassi Messaoud

It is served by the Oued Irara Airport which has services to London-Gatwick, Madrid, and Paris Charles de Gaulle, among others.

Melih Esenbel

The charter flight of the Turkish Airlines carrying eight crew and a delegation of 18 government officials from Ankara via Istanbul and Rome, Italy to London was diverted to Gatwick Airport due to poor visibility at Heathrow.

Nestlé Tower

These train operating companies provide services to Brighton and the South Coast, Bedford, Luton, Luton Airport, Gatwick Airport and fast services to Victoria and London Bridge.

Phil Cameron

Since then, the company has opened five UK airport lounges: a Flagship lounge at Heathrow Terminal 3, the North and South Terminals at Gatwick Airport, two at Stansted and the company’s first lounge outside London, at Birmingham.

Scania N112

The N112 was also built as an airport shuttle bus with Van Hool Alizee coach body and DAF Variomatic transmission, and in this form Capital Coaches of West Drayton ordered 23 on behalf of the British Airports Authority (BAA) at Heathrow in 1987, while Terminus Securities Ltd took one in 1988 for work at Gatwick.

Toddington, Bedfordshire

From Harlington station, you can travel north to Flitwick and Bedford, or south to Luton, Luton Airport Parkway, St Albans, St Pancras International, Gatwick Airport and Brighton.


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Fernhill, West Sussex

It came down in heavy, freezing fog on its approach to Gatwick Airport on a flight from Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.