Fastway & Gatwick airport

Tom Hall

Sustainability engagement manager

Today

• Key facts about Gatwick

• Strategic overview

• Working with Metrobus

• Future developments

Sale

• New owners

• Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) bought Gatwick for £1.51bn

• Independent investment fund

• Majority owner of London City

• Deal completed December 09

• Separation from BAA

• Dialogue with stakeholders

Key facts about Gatwick Airport

• World’s busiest single runway airport

• 2nd largest airport in the UK - 32 million passengers

• Approximately 80 airlines and around 200 destinations

• Busiest UK airport railway station - over 12 million rail users

• Over 23,000 jobs on airport campus, and supports a further 13,000 through related activities

• £985 million investment programme underway to 2013

• Largest UK Airport to be ISO 14001 registered & achieve Carbon Trust Standard

Strategic approach

• 2008 S106 Legal Agreement with key local authority partners

• Transport Forum (80+ members, Steering Group)

• Surface access action plan Dec 2009

•Consult on route development

•Improve on-airport facilities

• Key member of Fastway Bus Quality Partnership

• 8,000 airport employees living locally, requiring 24hr access

Working with Metrobus

• Route development

• Fastway

• 30 buses an hour to the airport

• Other routes – X90, 200, route 7

• Travelcard product

• 2006 launch of Gatwick Commuter

• Promotional activity

• Marketing material

• Staff roadshows

• Group sessions with employers

• Increase of staff using local bus

• 30% local staff commute by bus

• 60,000 trips made by Travelcard holders a month

Looking to the future

• Re-established bus working group

• New routes

• Innovation

• Network upgrades

• Locally throughout Crawley / Horley

• Regionally through Fastway express product

• Early morning extensions

• Improving accessibility at Gatwick

• South terminal interchange

• North terminal forecourt

North Terminal – extension, interchange and forecourt

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