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Gatwick is used as the main airport for London and south-east England by charter airlines, is a base for British Airways, EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic and serves about two hundred destinations.
The name "Gatwick" is mentioned for the first time in 1241, being the name of the estate, which existed on the airport today as it comes from the Anglo-Saxon words gāt (goat) and wīc (farm), meaning "goat farm". In 1890, the farm was sold and a racetrack was set up in its place. In the 1920s, part of the land near the racetrack (Hunts Green Farm) began to be used as an aerodrome, and in August 1930 it was licensed. In 1932, the Redwing Aircraft Company purchased the aerodrome and began using it to train pilots. In 1933 it was sold to an investor, who had a project of construction and development of the airport. The Ministry of Aviation approved the use of Gatwick for commercial flights the following year, and regular flights to the continent were already in 1936. Gatwick Airport was taken over by the British Air Force in 1939 and used as a basis for repairs to British Air Force aircraft. In 1950 the Cabinet of Ministers decided that Gatwick should be developed as an alternative to Heathrow Airport, being closed for costly global reconstruction. On June 9, 1958, the renewed Gatwick became the first airport in the world with direct rail connections and one of the first to use a fully enclosed terminal, which allowed passengers to get as close to the landing site as possible. The teletrap appeared after the reconstruction of the late 1970s - early 1980s. British Airways began flights from Gatwick, and BEA Helicopters opened a base here. British West Indian Airways (BWIA) and Sudan Airways were the first foreign companies to open direct flights from Gatwick.
Since the late 1950s, a growing number of British private airlines have begun to settle in Gatwick.
In connection with increasing passenger flow to the terminal, in 1983 a round satellite was added, connected to the main terminal by the first automatic passenger delivery system in the United Kingdom (today it is decommissioned). Construction of the North Terminal began in 1983: it was the largest construction project south of London in the 1980s. The terminal was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 and was extended in 1991. By South, it was connected by metro. The largest extension of the departure terminal of the North Terminal was completed in 2001.
In 2000, the extension of the South Terminal was completed, and in 2005, the luggage counters were upgraded, doubling their capacity. In recent years, the Southern Terminal has been used mostly by low-cost airlines, as many of the ordinary airlines have moved to the new North Terminal.
Starting with the end of 2007, British Airways and EasyJet are the largest airlines served by Gatwick Airport.
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