FLIGHTS at Gatwick Airport will add to more than 100 a day under a draft master plan reveals.
The plan, which lays out the airport's objectives up to 2020, projects around 286,000 flight activities a year, approximately 783 every day – up from 663 today.
Although the plan states that there is presently the infrastructure support to enlarge, airport bosses deny to rule out a possible future application for a second runway.
Gatwick's public affairs manager, Henry Parker, said: "In the event that a second runway is necessary, Gatwick is a part of nationally important infrastructure. It would be disingenuous of us to rule it out entirely.
It may be required in the future, but the key word there is 'may'.
"We desire to convey more long-haul flights into the airport. The goal is to become London's airport of choice."
The draft master plan entitled Gatwick Airport: Our dream for 2020 will now be subject to a three-month public consultation period of time.
Mr. Parker is eager to stress their instant plans fit within Gatwick's current one runway, two terminal format and the current £1.2 billion developments, including security enhancements and expansion of the north terminal. The plan projects a 20 percent increase in passengers through the gates, from 32 million a year to 40 million by 2020, with the airport maybe hitting its capacity of 45 million passengers a year by 2030.
Mr. Parker said: "It is about making it a superior airport to go through. We are radically changing the way we run the runway, increasing the flights per hr that we can accommodate."
With the airport presently generating £2 billion a yr for London and the south east, the plan proposes increasing this by £300 million a yr, creating 1,700 on site jobs.
Members of Gatwick Area Conservative Campaign welcomed what they called a "more realistic approach" from the airport, but said it was still not sufficient.
Vice chairman John Byng said: "It looks like the owners are being a bit more realistic, but we feel these forecasts about them running out of capacity by 2030 will prove false and they will never require a second runway."
Green campaigners bang the proposals, calling the increase unnecessary and risky.
Sarah Finch, borough councillor for Redhill East, said: "It makes no sense. We want to reduce traffic to airports if we are to decrease carbon emissions.
"There isn't room for enlargement that goes for the runway and flights."
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