Gatwick plans using emergency runway to increase flight capacity

London's second airport hopes to rival Heathrow with 70m passengers a year by 2032Gatwick is proposing to spend ?500m to widen its emergency runway and bring it into daily use as a second runway, as part of a plan to bring more than 100,000 additional flights a year to the airport by 2032.The core proposal in an ambitious 15-year masterplan published on Thursday shows that Gatwick, the UK's second-biggest airport, in south-east England, hopes to serve up to 70 million passengers a year with two runways - almost as many passengers as Heathrow today. Continue reading...