Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King has advised on a major project to double passenger lounge capacity at Gatwick Airport.
The firm’s business property team acted for independent facility operator No1 Traveller during the complex reorganisation of its lounges at the airport’s North and South terminals. 
The mammoth scheme, which involved substantial logistical and timing requirements over many months, is one of the largest airport infrastructure schemes that Stone King has worked on. The firm advised on all property and commercial aspects of the project.
No1 Traveller expects to welcome more than 300,000 travellers to its newly-enlarged South Terminal lounge this year and more than 500,000 at its refurbished north terminal lounges, where seating capacity has been doubled.
The airport is Europe's nineth busiest. In 2014 it handled just over 38m passengers.
Head of Stone King’s business property team, Sarah Lane, pictured, said: “Timing is everything when carrying out complex fit out works in the centre of a terminal – an operator needs to work around everything else that is going on in an environment that operates around the clock, with many competing interests.
“Making that happen smoothly is both logistically and legally challenging. So we’re delighted to have provided No1 Traveller with the specialist legal advice they needed for this important infrastructure project. It will help ensure that Gatwick can accommodate growing numbers of air travellers well into the future.”
