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Gatwick Airport for Business Travellers

Business travel is all about comfort, efficiency, and first-class services and facilities. If your job requires you to travel through Gatwick airport frequently, take a look at our travel business guide to the second largest single-runway airport in the United Kingdom.

Business Travel Stats

Gatwick airport business vs leisure travellers infographic

Gatwick Airport Passenger Breakdown 2014

More than 45 airlines use Gatwick’s two terminals to link the UK with more than 200 destinations all over the world. The busiest routes go to well-known business destinations like Edinburgh, Glasgow, Barcelona, Dubai, and Geneva. In fact, the airport has links to 46 of the top 50 European business destinations. The construction of a second runway is being planned, which would increase both the efficiency and the number of destinations on offer at Gatwick.

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Heathrow Airport for Business Travellers

Travel a lot for business? Flying in to London for a quick meeting? Read our business travel guide to Heathrow and make the most of your time in and around the airport.

Business Travel Stats

Heathrow Airport serves 28 of the top 29 world destinations based on their GDP ranking and handles nearly 190,000 passengers daily. It is estimated that the airport handles nearly 40 departures per destination weekly and serves 40 percent of all UK business travellers, of which 63 percent are from London.

Since 2009, nearly 1/3 of all passengers going going through Heathrow annually were business travellers. More specifically, the percentage of business travellers in 2009: 33.7% (22.2 million), percentage of business travellers in 2010: 35.3% (23.2 million), percentage of business travellers in 2011: 31% (21.5 million), percentage of business travellers in 2012: 30% (20.7 million) and percentage of business travellers in 2013 remained steady at 30% out of the 72.3 million people that travelled through Heathrow.

Heathrow passenger breakdown 2013

Business Services and Incentives

Heathrow is becoming increasingly attractive for passengers as a result of a huge transformation that took place from 2008 to 2011 with the operation of Terminal 5. Additionally, Terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4 have undergone modernisation improvements and remodelling. Especially for business passengers, the new airport facilities include self-service check-in desks, fast bag drops and extra security lanes. The Fast Track priority service is addressed to business passengers, who can save up to 30 minutes walking from the parking area to the airport, check-in area and gate. Regardless of the airline, the Fast Track priority service typically offers dedicated parking, duty free counters and priority check-in and boarding.

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