Fly this summer to 10 most popular travel spots from Gatwick

Fly this summer to 10 most popular travel spots from Gatwick

With the approaching summer, Gatwick Airport is suiting up to serve over six million passengers transiting through the airport. The airport is expected to be faced with a long busy summer period.

Gatwick airport connects to some of the major travel spots and tourist destinations around the world. The airport is likely to welcome around six million passengers traveling through its grounds between 19 July and 2 September.

The airport officials predict the busiest day for departure, this summer will be Friday 26 July with an expected transition of 72,000 passengers. It is also estimated that 460,000 travellers will depart from Gatwick airport on the busiest period of the week starting 12 August. 

The 10 most popular travel spots for this summer:

1: Flights to Amsterdam from Gatwick airport

2: Barcelona

3: Majorca

4: Dalaman

5: Alicante

6: Faro

7: Dublin

8: Nice

9: Belfast

10: Malaga

Gatwick airport has planned for a variety of themed programs to entertain its many families and travellers passing through its grounds. Passengers can expect to find a wide range of programs from theme music, dance, family fun to circus acts. 

Nick Pope, Terminal Operations at London Gatwick, said: “Gatwick is looking forward to welcoming passengers this summer with some fantastic events to entertain and delight people travelling with children in particular. Passengers will be able to enjoy everything from dance shows and circus performers to live music and magic acts.

“We want to ensure the journey through our airport is smooth and speedy but also fun and memorable – and giving passengers a great send off and warm welcome is all part of achieving this.” He added.

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Young Women Flying High In London

Young Women Flying High In London

Explore printed to stamp International Women's Day demonstrates that more youthful ladies are voyaging via air than their more seasoned partners outside of the norm.

The movement has been expanding in the course of the final two years, consistent with a tracker by London City Airport [LCY], the main airfield really in London. Ladies under 35 now structure a higher size of travelers voyaging through the airfield than those matured 35-54.

LCY is known for its notoriety with business travellers, because of its helpful area near the City and its speedy file in times. Some of its busiest tracks incorporate Zurich, Geneva, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. The findingscould in this manner infer that the expansion is because of increasingly youthful ladies making their imprint ready to go in London than at any other time in recent memory heretofore. 

In September 2009, 19% of female travelers flying out of London City Airport were matured under 35 and 59% wereaged 35-54. In December 2012, 49% were under 35 and only 35% were matured 35-54.

Matthew Hall, Chief Commercial Officer at London City Airport stated: "The size of male and female travelers voyaging through the airfield has remained stable in the course of the final few years at around 60/40. In any case, the expansion in more youthful ladies voyaging is engaging and proposes a lifestyle movement in this age assembly. If the plan is because of progressively ladies excelling ready to go or green ladies coming to be increasingly versatile in their relaxation exercises, it does recommend that adolescent ladies have an expanding inclination to voyage and are fiscally fit to do so all the more consistently."

Be that as it may, its not all great news for ladies; there remains a separation of the genders with regards to earnings. The overview indicated that the normal wages of business travelers has expanded from £83,000 in 2005-06 to £102,000 in 2011-12, with ladies winning around one quarter less than men.

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