September 24th - Gatwick – what will expansion mean, and when will passengers get to benefit?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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My guest is Stewart Wingate, Vinci Airports Managing Director for United Kingdom, overseeing future development and strategic direction of London Gatwick, Edinburgh Airport and Belfast International.
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| 1:36.8 | It's Wednesday the 24th of September. |
| 1:39.5 | If you were kind enough to listen on Monday, |
| 1:42.2 | you will have heard the breaking news that the |
| 1:45.7 | Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has given the go-ahead to the second runway at Gatwick Airport. |
| 1:53.9 | This is the one that requires the existing standby runway to be moved 12 metres north and from that point onwards it can be used |
| 2:04.3 | for the departures of Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 aircraft the kind to use by Ryanair, EasyJet, |
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