Easy Jet Aircraft positioning at London Gatwick Airport SCO 10,517
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David Gowans / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
G9583WFile size:
70 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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6054 x 4041 px | 51.3 x 34.2 cm | 20.2 x 13.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
2 April 2016Location:
London Gatwick Airport West Sussex RH6 0NP UK.More information:
By late 2015, EasyJet flew over 100 routes from Gatwick with a fleet of more than 60 aircraft. The airport is the carrier's largest base, and its 16 million passengers per year accounted for 45 percent of Gatwick's 2013 total (ahead of Gatwick's second-largest passenger airline: British Airways (BA), whose 4.5 million passengers comprised 14 percent of total passenger traffic in 2011–12) EasyJet's acquisition of BA franchise carrier GB Airways in March 2008 increased its share of airport slots to 24 percent (from 17 percent in late 2007); the airline became the largest short-haul operator at the airport, accounting for 29 percent of short-haul passengers. By 2009, BA's share of Gatwick slots had fallen to 20 percent from its peak of 40 percent in 2001. By 2010, this had declined to 16 percent. By mid-2012, EasyJet had 45 percent of Gatwick's early-morning peak time slots (6 am to 8:55 am).