fastway & gatwick airport tom hall sustainability engagement manager
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Fastway & Gatwick airport
Tom Hall
Sustainability engagement manager
Today
• Key facts about Gatwick
• Strategic overview
• Working with Metrobus
• Future developments
Sale
• New owners
• Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) bought Gatwick for £1.51bn
• Independent investment fund
• Majority owner of London City
• Deal completed December 09
• Separation from BAA
• Dialogue with stakeholders
Key facts about Gatwick Airport
• World’s busiest single runway airport
• 2nd largest airport in the UK - 32 million passengers
• Approximately 80 airlines and around 200 destinations
• Busiest UK airport railway station - over 12 million rail users
• Over 23,000 jobs on airport campus, and supports a further 13,000 through related activities
• £985 million investment programme underway to 2013
• Largest UK Airport to be ISO 14001 registered & achieve Carbon Trust Standard
Strategic approach
• 2008 S106 Legal Agreement with key local authority partners
• Transport Forum (80+ members, Steering Group)
• Surface access action plan Dec 2009
•Consult on route development
•Improve on-airport facilities
• Key member of Fastway Bus Quality Partnership
• 8,000 airport employees living locally, requiring 24hr access
Working with Metrobus
• Route development
• Fastway
• 30 buses an hour to the airport
• Other routes – X90, 200, route 7
• Travelcard product
• 2006 launch of Gatwick Commuter
• Promotional activity
• Marketing material
• Staff roadshows
• Group sessions with employers
• Increase of staff using local bus
• 30% local staff commute by bus
• 60,000 trips made by Travelcard holders a month
Looking to the future
• Re-established bus working group
• New routes
• Innovation
• Network upgrades
• Locally throughout Crawley / Horley
• Regionally through Fastway express product
• Early morning extensions
• Improving accessibility at Gatwick
• South terminal interchange
• North terminal forecourt
North Terminal – extension, interchange and forecourt
Questions&
Thank You
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