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Gatwick air traffic control failure
Blog Gatwick airport has suffered a brief loss of air traffic control systems this afternoon. I suspect they might have been referring to Gatwick alone, and that the systems are now back up as we're hearing that flights are being allocated landing slots...
[September 25, 2008, 17:05]
Biometrics land at Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. A Home Office spokeswoman explained that Sierra Leone was chosen because the main flight into Gatwick from the country arrives at a...
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
Airport hit by IT glitch
News Passengers were delayed at Gatwick airport over the weekend after an IT failure caused the check-in system to stop working. A spokesman for BAA, which owns Gatwick Airport, said the failure brought down every system except those of British Airways...
[November 14, 2005, 15:40]
T-Mobile engages BT in Wi-Fi dogfight
News The company has installed hot spots at the international departure lounges of Heathrow Terminals 3 and 4, and Gatwick and Glasgow airports, through a deal with airport owner BAA. The deal puts T-Mobile head-to-head with BT Openzone, which already...
[May 11, 2004, 15:50]
BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights
Talkback Leave Gatwick Airport (London) Arrive Gatwick (London) I am flying with Continental Airlines from Gatwick. Leave Atlanta Airport However, I can always stash my suitcase somewhere and have a look around Cleveland (rather than spend 7 boring hours in...
[January 13, 2005, 18:33]
ICT emergency planning starts with Gatwick evac
Blog Yep, the gods have chosen to play their irony card today in a very unsubtle fashion by visiting a full scale fire alarm and evacuation of Gatwick airport - a scant 20 minutes before I was supposed to board my flight to go and see an emergency...
[May 21, 2008, 9:14]
Airport police will use email to fight crime
News From Spring, Gatwick's police will employ a scheme whereby the public can report crimes, particularly petty criminal activity such as theft, using an online database before it is added to a new computer database of all illegal activity at the...
[January 31, 2000, 15:07]
Get connected at the airports - atlarge.com
Blog Comment like Heathrow and Gatwick in London already have a few entries, but come on, what about Glasgow airport and Prestwick airport? This new atlarge website would definitely be useful when - and if - the airports started getting feedback and user...
[January 4, 2007, 9:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Gatwick and thence to the Isle of Man — a place described by Billy It's certainly the home of the grumpiest barman in the Atlantic Isles, whom we are to encounter many hours later in the airport bar on our way back.
[November 11, 2005, 17:30]
Air-traffic-control glitch hits London area
News An unspecified computer problem caused major disruptions to air traffic in the south east of England late Thursday, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports. ZDNet.co.uk blogger Matt Loney wrote on the site from...
[September 25, 2008, 18:33]
Biometrics give increased area access at Heathrow
News Biometric data is already in use for border-control purposes at other airports in the UK, including Gatwick and Manchester Airport. Biometric passenger checks have been launched at Heathrow that will allow domestic travellers to access more shops...
[February 11, 2008, 11:56]
UK's Wi-Fi market may not match the hype
News Last week, Openzone said that it has now reached "over 90,000 minutes of access per week" -- which works out at around two hours per day per hot spot for a network that includes valuable sites such as Earls Court and Olympia, part of Gatwick...
[May 27, 2003, 14:44]
Openzone lands airport Wi-Fi deal
News Many UK airport lounges will get a Wi-Fi hot spot as part of this deal including Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Belfast -- as well as Heathrow and Gatwick, which both already contain an Openzone network.
[February 19, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog It's a long drive to Gatwick, and there's not much chance of restful silence throughout. It is early on Sunday morning and I'm not at my best, but to give the company its due it has the decency to send a cab to haul my mortal remains to the airport.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists
News Things got off to a bad start, although one that was curiously in keeping with the disaster planning theme of the trip, when BAA decided to evacuate Gatwick's South Terminal in the middle of the afternoon.
[May 30, 2008, 15:05]
UK Wi-Fi market is hotting up
News The remaining eight are sited at Moat House hotels at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gatwick, Manchester, Cambridge Garden, Harlow/Stansted, Oakley Court and Shepperton. Six of the locations are major passenger transport hubs -- Euston Station, Liverpool...
[November 18, 2002, 16:52]
BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights
News Also, customers can only depart from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester. For a start, the flights aren't completely free, as customers will have to pay airport tax and any travel insurance in order to get to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Wi-Fi to arrive at UK's railway stations
News The 15 stations involved in the trial are Waterloo, Kings Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, London Bridge, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, Charing Cross, Gatwick, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds Central, Glasgow Central...
[July 16, 2002, 10:35]
Railways set for Wi-Fi showdown
News No date has yet been publicly announced for the activation of hot spots at the remaining stations -- Kings Cross, London Bridge, Fenchurch Street, Charing Cross, Gatwick, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds Central, Glasgow Central...
[February 3, 2003, 14:37]
The Cloud signs airport Wi-Fi deal
News Stanstead airport was the first to go live earlier this week and will be followed this month by five other airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton. Business travellers should prepare themselves for an extra connectivity...
[March 14, 2006, 16:35]
