Worksheet 3) Improving connectivity wit hin global cities network

1) SPEECH: Improving London’s air connectivity – the decade ahead

Already Gatwick offers more Domestic and European routes than any other UK airport.  And today we see 1 in 5 of our passengers travelling on business. Recent developments in routes and aircraft order books illustrate the future trends of aviation. Recent investment in Gatwick means that Gatwick is best placed to deliver the right sort of airport capacity to serve the future demand. Today I can announce that this year we will add 20 New long haul routes at Gatwick.These include:

WestJet and AirCanada flights to Toronto WestJet flights to Vancover, Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saint Johns. New Dreamliner services from Norwegian to San Francisco and Boston. Cathay Pacific flying to Hong Hong. And British Airways Long Haul to New York and Lima. And all of this on top of the Emirates decision to fly all of their Gatwick services to

Dubai on the A380.

In achieving this Gatwick joins that very small group of European airports that fly to more than 50 long haul destinations. Over the next decade we’ll add more routes and drive even greater growth in our airport – we’ve added the equivalent of a new airport the size of Glasgow Airport over the last five years […] And we’re thinking about the whole journey. Gatwick is currently Europe’s best connected airport by rail. People will always want to have the choice to drive but we want to set even higher targets for passengers arriving and departing by train.This month brand new rolling stock will be introduced on the Gatwick Express and the Thameslink. Over the next few years, we will be transforming the station. In 2018 the Thameslink upgrade will revolutionise rail connectivity to Gatwick […]

Stewart Windgate CEO of Gatwick Airport, http://www.gatwickobviously.com, March 2016.

2) Use the two maps to explain Air’s connectivity in London