{"id":480237,"date":"2025-10-07T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480237\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:03:13","slug":"this-busy-london-airport-has-just-been-crowned-the-best-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480237\/","title":{"rendered":"This Busy London Airport Has Just Been Crowned The Best In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flight-fanatics and airport-aficionados of the capital city<\/a>, gather round. I come bearing yet another reason to add to the ever-lengthening list of why London is so darn great<\/strong>. And today\u2019s oh-so humble brag comes in the form of a London aviation hub that\u2019s just been named the best airport in the whole country<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The accolade in question comes courtesy of the Travel Industry Awards<\/strong> that recently took place at London\u2019s legendary Roundhouse. Now in its fifth year, the awards shine a light on the trailblazing travel companies that continue to fly high. The best, biggest, and brightest names in UK travel gathered at the Camden<\/a> hotspot to find out who\u2019d be taking home some of the most prestigious prizes in the industry<\/strong>. And a London airport got their hands on one of the most coveted awards of all.<\/p>\n

\"AnCredit: Esc Leo, Shutterstock UK & Ireland Airport of the Year <\/p>\n

London\u2019s very own Gatwick Airport<\/strong> was crowned the UK & Ireland Airport of the Year<\/strong>, praised for its innovation and top-notch customer service. September was a pretty great month for London\u2019s second largest airport, to be quite honest with you. The award comes hot on the heels of the official approval of its plans to build a second runway<\/a>. Gatwick is currently one of the busiest single-runway airports in the whole world<\/strong>. The creation of a second runway could give the airport capacity to double its passenger numbers and offer over 100,000 extra flights a year.<\/p>\n

The Travel Industry Awards<\/strong> are organised by the Travel Trade Gazette<\/strong>. They\u2019re judged by a panel of senior travel professionals, media experts, and editors, ensuring a diverse array of perspectives and a fair and accurate selection process.<\/p>\n

The Travel Industry Awards<\/strong> judges said on Gatwick Airport\u2019s win<\/strong>: \u201cGatwick displayed impressive evidence of out-performing customer and product KPIs across the board. Strong examples of innovation and superb customer service makes this airport worthy of award-winner status, and despite its long-established position, it is still not failing to innovate, while keeping an eye on ensuring its customers receive top-notch service, as well as supporting travel agent partners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Rich Higgins, Shutterstock Save Flight-fanatics and airport-aficionados of the capital city, gather round. I come bearing yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,10762,257,10763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-480237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-international-trip","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-trip-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115332553409784216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}