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Cheap Gatwick Airport Parking>Airport Information>Intersting Facts Intersting Facts about Gatwick Airport- Gatwick airport is the 6th busiest international airport in the world
- The site of Gatwick Airport was once a popular Race Course.
- Gatwick airport is the busiest (and busiest) single runway airport in the world
- The Beehive was Gatwick's first passenger terminal building. In 2000, the revolutionary Beehive terminal building was refurbished and used as GB Airway's head office.
- Gatwick has two terminals, but only one runway
- Gatwick airport is the UK's second largest airport (after heathrow)
- Gatwick's Air Traffic Control Tower is one of the tallest in Europe
- Gatwick Airport was once owned by the Surrey Aero Club in 1930.
- The first commercial flights from Gatwick were started in 1934.
- Gatwick airport has over 27,000 car park spaces.
- The airport has won "Best UK Airport" award (Travel Weekly) for seven years in a row and also won "Top UK Airport" award (Travel Bulletin) in 2001
- BAA Gatwick serves more destinations in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean than any other UK airport
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