Plans to expand Gatwick airport

– Gatwick airport, the second-busiest in Britain, said in draft expansion proposals that it wanted to bring its second, emergency runway, into routine use from the mid-2020s.

The plan is to add new flights to overcome a summer capacity crunch. In its draft plan, published yesterday, Gatwick said it wanted to use new technology to increase capacity on its main runway and use its second standby runway for routine departing flights. – Reuters

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