Gatwick Airport to proceed with second runway conversion

Many airports are recognising that the sort of traffic levels that existed in late 2019 and the first month of 2020 will not be seen again for quite some time, and the measurement is in years rather than months.

Even so, and as reported frequently by CAPA, the intent is there to get new infrastructure through the planning stage and under construction as quickly as possible, using the current limbo period as an opportunity to progress those ends, and to welcome on board new investors.

One example is at London's Gatwick Airport, the world's busiest single runway airport.

Gatwick already has its new investor, in the shape of the French conglomerate VINCI, and now it is fast-forwarding a conversion from taxiway/emergency runway to functioning runway, in order to give it two. Or at least, one and a half.