{"id":382982,"date":"2026-03-08T20:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/london-gatwick-airport-new-airlines-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:30:17","slug":"historic-london-gatwick-to-welcome-8-new-airlines-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=382982","title":{"rendered":"Historic: London Gatwick To Welcome 8 New Airlines In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to air travel in and out of the United Kingdom, the country&#8217;s aviation ecosystem is very much built around London. The British capital city is <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thread\/hit-for-six-does-london-have-too-many-airports\/\" >served by six different airports<\/a>, with the two busiest hubs among this list also being the two busiest in the nation as a whole. While<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"191650\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london\/\"  >London<\/a><\/span> Heathrow Airport (LHR) has consistently topped the rankings in this front, second-placed<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255088\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/gatwick\/\"  >Gatwick<\/a><\/span> (LGW) provides useful extra capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s secondary hub has a busy year in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,120,759,1265,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-london","category-london-gatwick-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382983,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382982\/revisions\/382983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}