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  • proper noun An airport in West Sussex, England; approximately half-way between London and Brighton.

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  • The airport's vision, he says, is to improve the experience for everyone, so the name Gatwick is no longer synonymous with the stressful queues and unpleasant environment customers often associate with airports.

    Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2010

  • Sometimes if we're really worried about the wrath of the travel gods (like the one time we landed in Gatwick and the fire trucks came out on to the tarmack to greet us because the landing gear light was stuck in the "not deployed" mode.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • HSBC Holdings PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC are handling the sale of Gatwick, which is expected to conclude this year.

    Deal Makers Hop on Infrastructure Projects 2009

  • And then you have Gatwick, which is a smaller airport, or Kennedy and La Guardia, sort of the same sort of situation.

    CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008 2008

  • We landed at Gatwick, which is kind of an insanely designed airport; it's set up so most of the time you don't know your gate until 15 minutes before the flight, so everybody has to run around like crazy.

    WorldCon Again marycrawford 2005

  • I have to fly into Gatwick, which is like the worst airport, at least it was last year since they were doing so much construction.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • If the airplane engine white noise does its usual trick for me, one of those story ideas may be full-born by the time we land in Gatwick.

    State meme suricattus 2004

  • A Foreign Office spokesman said: The flight from Cairo to Gatwick is to supplement commercial flights already being provided by British airlines.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • A Foreign Office spokesman said: The flight from Cairo to Gatwick is to supplement commercial flights already being provided by British airlines.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Sloppily, however, it chose to illustrate its television reports with footage of Gatwick, which is unaffected by the dispute.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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