GATWICK

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Air Zimbabwe

flyboystan

The full schedule is now available on the Air Zimbabwe website, twice weekly flights by their Boeing 767 aircraft starting 15th November 2013.

Wed/Sun UM722 Harare 09.00 London Gatwick 18.30

Mon/Thur UM725 London Gatwick 19.30 Harare 06.30+

I think Philippine Airlines will announce a return to London Gatwick as soon as the EU ban has been lifted, after all they have to fly those shiny new Boeing 777-300 aircraft somewhere and they have been quite open about the fact that they intend to reopen European flights as soon as possible once the ban has been lifted.

Avianca have previously stated in the past they are waiting for suitable take off and landing slots at Heathrow but they have been saying that for at least the last 5 years and many airlines have acquired slots at Heathrow in that time so perhaps they might decide to resume flights from Gatwick instead of Heathrow especially as they have new Boeing 787 aircraft on order and due for delivery from early 2014 and I am sure they could obtain suitable slots at Gatwick for a Bogota service.

Gatwick is not the airport it was and airlines especially long haul airlines are starting to realise this so hopefully Gatwick will see new long haul routes open up becuase of it.

What Gatwick needs is a New York connection again and perhaps with the Delta/Virgin Atlantic JV it may be possible in the future to perhaps move one of the Heathrow to Newark flights to Gatwick and those Heathrow slots could then be used by Delta for a new route from Heathow to Salt Lake City, a destination they have recently announced the intention to fly to at some point.