The U.K. government has provided provisional approval to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London LONDON -- The U.K. government on Thursday provided provisional approval to ...

Gatwick, which is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of London and serves more than 40 million passengers a year, is the country's busiest single-runway airport, and second-busiest overall ...

Critics of Gatwick Airport's expansion have accused the flights hub of trying to open a new runway on the cheap. Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (Cagne) claims the West Sussex airport ...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government on Thursday provided provisional approval to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London if certain improvements to the plan were met ...

LONDON — The U.K. government gave its provisional backing Thursday to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London if certain improvements were met, including on noise ...