Gatwick ATC
NIMMER. clearly I have touched a sensitive point with you. Gatwick will just have to handle what it can. As a totally foreign owned tax avoidance company operating the so called "Eurobond scandal" it gets no sympathy from me or most of West Sussex, Kent and East Sussex not to mention the North Weald area.
They will just have to knuckle down and have as many departures as they can safely operate off a single runway and they cannot, as a commercial enterprise, inflict their misery as they wish on the general public.
Returning to the matter of dispersal and 7000ft somebody, who shall be nameless, at Swanwick has confirmed that this is perfectly possible if required.
The fact is that Gatwick is just in the wrong place and permanently trying to operate beneath the arriving and departing aircraft of Heathrow. Now that Birmingham are wishing to increase their activity as well as Luton and Stansted Gatwick is becoming an anomaly in the major airport league. It will remain a cheap flight holiday destination airport and that is fine. With business travel down by some 23% and the CBI in London saying Heathrow is where they want expansion, creating more jobs and expanding business Gatwick is likely to settle down to a successful, largely holidaymaker airport.