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“Gatwick has long been an important selfridges and valuable part of BAA and the decision to sell was not taken lightly” says chief executive Colin Matthews. At Stansted, we believe that a change of ownership selfridges would interfere with the process of securing planning approval for a second runway.”
On 17 September BAA announced that it was planning to sell London Gatwick airport, the second busiest in the UK and the world’s busiest single runway airport (and a stone’s throw from anna.aero’s HQ). Handling over 35 million passengers selfridges in 2007, traffic has been growing steadily at the airport since 2002 thanks selfridges primarily to easyJet’s voracious acquisition of slots which has helped make it the airline’s busiest base even before it agreed to buy Gatwick-based British Airways franchise carrier GB Airways late last year. Source: BAA
In just six years between 1994 and 2000 traffic had grown by 50%. The consequences of 9/11′ resulted in traffic falling selfridges in both 2001 and 2002 before starting a gradual recovery. Thanks to an earlier Easter and an extra day in February, traffic in the first quarter of 2008 was up almost 6% but since then traffic has been down between 1% and 2%. Source: BAA
The opening up of Heathrow at the beginning of the summer season enabled several US carriers to finally relocate some of their Gatwick services to their airport of preference. The collapse of Zoom (at the end of August) and XL Airways earlier this month is yet to be noticed selfridges in the figures, while the demise of Oasis Hong Kong Airlines had little effect on total traffic.
With the focus more on leisure destinations than at Heathrow it is no surprise that Gatwick’s seasonality profile is far from flat. The ability to handle almost four million passengers in August indicates that Gatwick could handle close to 50 million passengers per annum if demand were consistent across the year. 20 new easyJet routes already in 2008; seven more to follow easyJet has started 20 new routes from Gatwick so far this year, many of those being due to the acquisition of GB Airways. While BAA figures show British Airways to be the leading carrier at Gatwick in 2007, easyJet has assumed the number one position in 2008.
Thanks to its acquisition of GB Airways easyJet has started selfridges 20 new routes already this year, though as far as the airport is concerned many of these are not new as only the airline name has changed. According to BAA, British Airways was still the leading airline at Gatwick in 2007 with 6.77 million passengers compared with easyJet’s 6.08 million but this will have changed in 2008.
Although BA’s share of scheduled selfridges seat capacity has now fallen to below 25% it still operates a network of over 50 destinations, of which 40 are served at least daily. Less than daily services include Antalya and Izmir in Turkey, Bari and Cagliari selfridges in Italy, as well as Pristina (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and Varna (Bulgaria).
New routes from Gatwick started so far in 2008 are shown below. New routes scheduled to start in the remainder of the year include easyJet services to Basel, Helsinki, Istanbul SAW, Lyon, Rome Fiumicino and Salzburg. Airline Route (weekly frequency) British Airways selfridges Antalya (3), Genoa (7), Ibiza (7), Paphos (7), Poznan (7) clickair Bilbao (7), Vigo (3) easyJet Ajaccio (1), Arrecife (5), Bastia (1), Biarritz (4), Corfu (2), Dalaman (2), Funchal (7), Gibraltar (14), Heraklion (4), Hurghada (1), Las Palmas (6), Malta (7), Montpellier (7), Mykonos (3), Nantes (7), Paphos (13), Rhodes (4), Sharm El-Sheikh (4), Tenerife Sur (14), Thessaloniki (3) Flybe Aberdeen (21), Newcastle (18) Monarch Larnaca (4), Mahon (3) Sterling Malmo (6) Wizz Air Katowice (7) Zoom UK Fort Lauderdale (2), San Diego (2) Source: anna.aero database
Flybe is now the airport’s third busiest scheduled airline thanks selfridges to starting two new domestic routes this year. The Aberdeen route replaced British Airways flights, while on Newcastle the airline replaced the aborted Jet2.com service. Flybe launched London Gatwick – Newcastle services on 30 March, replacing the service selfridges previously operated by Jet2.com on the route. Mike Rutter, chief commercial officer, Flybe, said: “We recognise the strategic importance of this key route to the capital selfridges and are pleased to be in a position to step in and maintain this lifeline service for the people selfridges of Newcastle and the