Digging out old timetables it appears Community Express operated Monday to Friday with outbounds from Birmingham at 08:40 and 17:15 getting to Gatwick at 09:40 and 18:15, the return left Gatwick at 10:15 and 18:45 arriving at Birmingham at 11:15 and 19:15. Apart from point to point traffic, the morning flight would have fed into the transatlantic wave out of Gatwick, I presume the evening flight would have mainly allowed european connections as I don't think there was a huge amount of longhual departures from Gatwick in the evening as British Airways had not moved the South American and African services from Heathrow at this point - these did leave in the evening.
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