Gatwick

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Mon Jul 25 15:04:24 BST 2011


Fun fact: Gatwick is the world's busiest single (operational) runway airport.

Yes, only one strip.

Makes it nice 'n easy to get around

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:34, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> Hello. How big is Gatwick Airport? More specifically, about how long do
> I need to allow for walking from its railway station to the check-in
> hall ('Terminal S', according to my ticket)?
>
> I don't think I've been to Gatwick before -- it isn't the obvious
> airport for somebody living in Leeds -- but I will be flying to Riga
> from there, so am currently trying to work out appropriate connecting
> trains and wondering whether I need to allow for several miles of
> travelators or anything in my timings.
>
> And any wisdom on likely time between scheduled touchdown on the return
> flight and being back at the station also appreciated, though I
> appreciate that's laughably hard to predict. I'll only have hand
> luggage, so does expecting to be at the platform in an hour sound
> reasonable?
>
> (I won't of course be depending on things being reasonable, and will add
> a margin of error to allow for unreasonableness, but it'd be handy to
> have some idea of the base time.)
>
> Thanks -- and looking forward to seeing many of you in Riga.
>
> Smylers
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>


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