Skift Take
The delay for a decision about London's air-travel future will likely produce more difficult choices as airlines weigh using Gatwick for the international connections they can no longer guarantee at Heathrow.
British Airways could add more wide- body planes at London’s Gatwick airport in a review of capacity at a base dominated by aging single-aisle jets that generate lower profit margins than operations at its main Heathrow hub.
BA is turning to Gatwick’s fleet makeup after reducing its cost base there through an outsourcing strategy, said Silla Maizey, the carrier’s managing director for the airport.
“Gatwick can accommodate all plane types so it just depends on meeting needs of our customers and where demand is,” Maizey said in an interview. “That’s a long time ahead and we are still in the process of planning out which planes go where and when.”
BA’s Gatwick fleet features 19 Boeing Co. 737-400 single- aisle planes dating from 1990 and deployed mainly within Europe, aided by Airbus SAS A320-series jets dr
