Budget long-haul carrier Air Asia X has revealed that its flight to Europe and India will soon be discontinued. The Malaysia-based airline’s Facebook page said on Friday that the move comes as a result of sky-high fuel prices and taxes. The announcement includes its A330 service to both Paris and London as well as to [...]

South Korea’s flag carrier will soon commence flights between south London’s Gatwick airport and Seoul. The Incheon airport-based airline said on Thursday that the new service would begin on 29 April of this year via one of its Boeing 777 aircraft, which is configured to hold 225 passengers in economy class, up to 28 Prestige [...]

Growth at the second-busiest airport in London will be slower than predicted in the previous forecast, the airport’s owner has reported. Thursday saw Gatwick announce new estimate numbers regarding the next 10 years, which said that instability in the foreseeable future along with a tougher economy would lead to less growth at the single-runway facility. [...]

Train passengers trying to get home or travel to Gatwick Airport have experienced severe delays to their journey after a man decided to climb beneath a train just outside south London’s Thornton Heath. The incident occurred in the early evening and resulted in the power being turned off so that the police could deal with [...]

Train services to Gatwick Airport from London are gradually getting back to normal after a burst water main caused severe disruption on Monday. The incident occurred on Stanhope Road and, according to a spokesman for Network Rail, a large volume of water poured onto the track. No water supplies to the area were said to [...]

Gatwick Airport will have to revise the way in which it handles its charges for baggage and check-in after the Civil Aviation Authority upheld a complaint made by Ryanair. The low-cost carrier said it was unfair for passengers who had checked-in online and who were only travelling with hand luggage to have to pay the [...]

British Airways has increased the amount of weekly flights between Gatwick and Florida’s Tampa International Airport. This month’s announcement said that rather than just five times per week that BA would now be operating one nonstop flight to Tampa from Gatwick Airport each day of the week. The new flights began on the 1st of [...]

As freezing weather grips most of the UK, the government has ordered an assessment of just how ready the country is to deal with prolonged wintry conditions. Philip Hammond, the transport secretary, said it was not good enough that passengers on trains are facing delays and cancellations; drivers are being stranded in their vehicles and [...]

British Airways has extended its Gatwick gataways with an increasing route network that has helped establish the company as the airport’s front-running long haul carrier. As BA celebrates a year of running their popular three-time-a-week service to Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, it is also preparing to launch a brand new twice-weekly flight to Cancun [...]

Following the discovery of a briefcase containing dead pigeons and a pair of boots abandoned beside a baggage carrousel at Gatwick Airport, the UK Border Agency has decided to compile a list of the weirdest things it has ever found. The birds were discovered by one of the airport’s baggage handlers on 9 August. There [...]