Gatwick Airport arrivals today

Today’s Gatwick arrivals are all on the live board below: scheduled time, estimated time, airline, origin, terminal and current status for every flight landing at London Gatwick today, updated continuously until the aircraft is on the ground. Gatwick handled 42.8 million passengers in 2025 and schedules up to 57 aircraft movements an hour on a single runway, more than any other one-runway airport in the world, so search the board by flight number or origin rather than scrolling. Because everything here lands on that one runway, the board is also the best early warning of the evening queue that Gatwick is known for.

North or South: which terminal your passenger lands at

Gatwick has two terminals about a kilometre apart, North and South, and that is the first thing to read on the board before you set off. According to Gatwick’s own terminal list, easyJet, the airport’s biggest airline by far, and Emirates use the North Terminal, while British Airways, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Vueling, Norse Atlantic and Jet2 use the South. TUI is split by flight number: TOM flights use the North Terminal and BY flights the South. Airlines do move between the two from time to time, so trust the terminal on the board on the day rather than last year’s habit. If you do end up at the wrong one, the free inter-terminal shuttle, a driverless train, links the two buildings in about 2 minutes and runs round the clock.

From touchdown to the arrivals hall usually takes 20 to 40 minutes at Gatwick. European flights with hand luggage clear fastest, especially at the South Terminal where the walk from the piers is shorter; a full long-haul aircraft at the North Terminal during the morning arrivals bank, when the passport hall is at its busiest, takes closer to the top of that range. Each terminal has one public arrivals hall, and the exit doors are the meeting point.

Picking someone up: the £10 forecourt charge and the free Long Stay

This is the question we are asked most. Since 6 January 2026 stopping on the forecourt outside either terminal costs £10 for up to 10 minutes, with no free period at all: a 1-minute stop costs the same as a 9-minute one. After that it is £1 for each extra minute up to 20 minutes, with a maximum charge of £30 and a maximum stay of 30 minutes. The charge is read by number-plate cameras and payable online by midnight the following day; Blue Badge holders are exempt if the vehicle is registered in advance. Waiting for an arriving passenger there is neither allowed nor affordable.

The free alternative is the Long Stay car park of the terminal your passenger lands at, where every vehicle gets 2 hours free and a shuttle bus runs to the terminal: 5 to 10 minutes to the South Terminal and 10 to 12 minutes to the North. The sensible routine is to park there, watch this board on your phone, and only walk or ride to the arrivals hall once the flight shows Landed and the 20 to 40 minutes above have run. The Short Stay multi-storey car parks beside each terminal are the paid option if you want to wait at the doors.

Meeting by train is often simpler still. Gatwick’s railway station is built into the South Terminal, with the Gatwick Express to London Victoria in about 30 minutes, Thameslink trains to London Bridge, St Pancras and beyond, and Southern services along the coast to Brighton. From the station it is a 2-minute shuttle ride to the North Terminal.

Reading the board, and following the aircraft in

The column to trust is the estimated time, not the scheduled one: the estimate follows the actual aircraft and is recalculated all the way in. The status column tells the rest of the story: Expected means the aircraft is airborne and on its way, Landed means it is on the runway, and Diverted means it has gone elsewhere, most often to Stansted or Luton, and the airline will tell passengers what happens next.

Gatwick’s one runway explains most of what the board does in the evening. Arrivals and departures share it in turn, so when the return wave from the Mediterranean bunches up between 18:00 and 22:00, inbound aircraft are held in the stacks over Sussex and Kent and the estimates on this board creep later together. To see where an aircraft actually is, take its flight number from the board and put it into the live flight radar on our homepage, or open the Gatwick flight radar and watch it turn onto the long final approach over the Sussex countryside.

Frequently asked questions

How long after landing do passengers come out at Gatwick?

Usually 20 to 40 minutes. Hand-luggage passengers off a European flight at the South Terminal are quickest; a full long-haul arrival at the North Terminal during the morning peak takes longest.

Is there any free pick-up at Gatwick?

Yes, in the Long Stay car parks: 2 hours free at both terminals, with a free shuttle bus to the building. The forecourt costs £10 for up to 10 minutes and waiting there is not permitted.

Which terminal does easyJet arrive at?

The North Terminal, according to Gatwick’s own terminal list; check the terminal shown for your flight on this board all the same. Our easyJet flight tracker explains how to find an easyJet aircraft on the radar by its U2 number.

Where are Gatwick departures?

On the Gatwick departures page, with advice on how early to arrive at each terminal and how to reach the airport by rail.