The Guardian - Archie Bland
Airport’s desertion sign of vast challenges faced by sector, with two-week quarantine imminent
On a typical day, 60,000 people fly out of Gatwick airport. Last Saturday, there were just 21.
Across the three flights that took off, that means an average of seven passengers. Gatwick says that the figure – even lower than the 24 initially reported – is an outlier, but with a typical day currently falling anywhere between 100 and 400 passengers, the airport remains a ghost town.
Just seven flights were scheduled at the airport on Tuesday, to and from Jersey, Dublin, Kingston, and Sofia. At about 2pm, in one major thoroughfare that normally bustles with passengers, staff and whiteboard-wielding cab drivers, there were six people, or one-fifth the number of hand sanitiser stations...more
