15 JUNE 2020

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Article from BTNews 15 JUNE 2020

Gatwick reopens

The North Terminal at London’s Gatwick Airport has reopened today (Monday 15 June) to coincide with the return of easyJet.

Passengers are required to wear a face covering within the airport with Gatwick staff mandated to wear face coverings in passenger-facing areas of the terminals. Face mask vending machines are being made available at the airport.  Prior to Covid-19, besides easyJet, Aeroflot, Air Canada, Emirates, Icelandair, Royal Air Maroc, Tui, Tianjin Airlines’ Virgin Atlantic, Vueling and West Jet all operated from the terminal.

Stewart Wingate, Chief Executive, Gatwick Airport, said: “Having remained open throughout this pandemic the wellbeing and safety of our passengers and everyone that works at the airport remains our top priority.  We have introduced a range of new social distancing and hygiene solutions to help this happen so we can all help protect each other when travelling through the airport. We want people to understand that airports and air travel is a safe environment in this Covid-19 travelling world.

“We are pleased to be in a position to re-open the North Terminal and we look forward to welcoming back easyJet as they restart flights alongside our other airlines. The recent Government announcement regarding the 14-day quarantine period for passengers arriving into the UK is, in our opinion, already having an impact on the start of air travel recovery.  We accept the Government’s absolute priority is the protection of public health, but we continue to push for regular, country by country reviews of quarantine regulations, based on medical evidence.”

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