Gatwick Airport is London's second largest airport and the second busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. It is also the world's busiest single runway airport, and the world's 22nd busiest airport in terms of passengers per year (7th in terms of international passengers). It is located in Crawley, West Sussex (originally Charlwood, Surrey) 5 km north of the town centre, 46 km south of London and 40 km north of Brighton.
Charter airlines generally do not operate from Heathrow and therefore use Gatwick as their main base for London and the South East.
For the past 30 years many flights to and from the USA have also used Gatwick because of the restrictions on access to Heathrow that were enshrined in the 1977 Bermuda II bilateral air services agreement between the UK and the US.
Gatwick is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports, including Heathrow, and is owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.
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