Remembering the Gatwick–Heathrow Airlink
Remembering the Gatwick – Heathrow Airlink When You Could Transfer by Helicopter Imagine arriving at Gatwick Airport and discovering that your connecting flight leaves from Heathrow. Instead of boarding a coach or sitting in motorway traffic, you climb aboard a large Sikorsky helicopter. For eight remarkable years, passengers could genuinely do exactly that. Between 1978 and 1986, the Gatwick–Heathrow Airlink carried passengers between London’s two major airports aboard a Sikorsky S-61N helicopter. Its registration could…
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