page_title: Timeline of Gatwick Airport
section_title: 1990–1999
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Gatwick Airport / 1990–1999
caption_attribution_description: Boeing 747-2U3B PK-GSA (cn 22246/452) Garuda Indonesia (Later served with Phuket Air, Thailand, as HS-TAO. Last noted in 2005). Boeing 727-2J4/Adv G-BHNE (cn 21676/1417) Dan-Air London (Later served with Sun Country Airlines as N285SC. Scrapped at Miami - Opa Locka in 2005). London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK) UK - England, August 1990.
context_page_description: Gatwick Airport was in Surrey until 1974, when it became part of West Sussex as a result of a county boundary change. The original, pre-World War II airport was built on the site of a manor in the parish of Charlwood. The land was first used as an aerodrome in the 1920s, and in 1933 commercial flights there were approved by the Air Ministry.
context_section_description: End of the 1989–90 fiscal year: By now, scheduled passengers consistently outnumbered non-scheduled passengers at the airport; non-scheduled passengers had accounted for more than half the airport's passengers for most of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
  1991: A second aircraft pier was added to the North Terminal. Dan-Air replaced Air Europe as Gatwick's principal short-haul scheduled operator after Air Europe ceased trading early in 1991; both played important roles in the development of the airport's short-haul scheduled route network.
  1994: The North Terminal international departure lounge and the first phase of the South Terminal international departure lounge opened, at a cost of £30 million.
  1998: The main runway was extended for a fourth time, reaching 10,879 ft (3,316 m), to enable longer-range operations with wide-body aircraft.
  December 1999: EasyJet began operating from the airport; its first route served Geneva with aircraft and crew from EasyJet Switzerland based at Geneva Airport.
caption: A Dan-Air Boeing 727-200 Advanced and Garuda Indonesia Boeing 747-200B at Gatwick in 1990
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