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Gatwick Guest Houses
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Gatwick Airport is London's second airport and first for leiure travel. Circa 35 miles south east of London with easy motorway and train access.
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Gatwick is the busiest single runway airport
in the world, the second largest airport in the UK and the sixth
busiest international airport in the world. Its development strategy
for the future focuses on the airport's expansion as a single
runway, two terminal airport, as it grows to handle around 40
million passengers a year by 2010/2011. Number of terminals: Number
of passengers: Number of airlines: Number of destinations: Number of
runways: two (North and South) 30 million 80 around 200 1
Fun Facts about Gatwick Airport
Hargreaves sports shop sells 9,500 footballs per year
'Body Butter' accounts for 35% of sales in Body Shop
The best selling book in Waterstone's in April 2002 was The Summons by John Grisham
Costa Coffee in the Gatwick Village (South Terminal) sells over 520,000 cups of coffee a year
WH Smith is targeted to sell one million bottles of water during the year
You would need 5,000 sacks of potatoes to make the total number packets of crisps sold within WH Smith in a year
You could cover the runway 37 times over with the amount of chewing gum sold at the airport in a year
A travel adapter is sold at the airport every three minutes
Over 200,000 letters and greetings cards are sold at the airport a year
You could take over 1.25 million photographs with the total number of film sold at the airport a year
World Duty Free sold 142,558,200 cigarettes last year (based on individual sticks)
Over 900,000 bottles of perfume sold last year within World Duty Free
225,000 bottles whisky were sold by World Duty Free last year
95,000 bottles of Vodka sold by World Duty Free last year
33,000 units of Bassets Jelly Babies, Wine Gums & Allsorts were sold at the airport last year
A total of 3.83m cars used the airport's car parks last year. Laid end to end, enough cars to circle the M25 85 times.
On average, more than a 1000 tons of rain falls on Gatwick's car parks each year.
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