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How long does Gatwick Airport Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 01991018 · Transport & storage · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

30days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
19 Feb 1986
Registered office
5TH FLOOR, GATWICK AIRPORT, GATWICK, RH6 0NP
2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 14–60 days. Reported average: 30.

Stated terms14–60d
+16 days
Reported avg30d

At a glance

The key figures

14–60d
their stated terms
16%
invoices paid outside terms
+6d
slower over the window
±2d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Faster than 66% of the 248 large companies reporting in transport & storage.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 14d
24
25
27
27
26
30
H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 80% 31–60 days 15% 61+ days 5%

The read · computed from their figures

Gatwick Airport Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 30 days against stated terms of 14–60 days.

The direction is slower: from 24 to 30 days over the window — about 6 days slower.

In the latest period 16% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 5% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Gatwick Airport’s standard payment terms are 60 days from the date of receipt of the invoice but many organisations, including smaller companies have terms of 30 days or less. Small invoices are paid immediately by Purchase Card. Payment runs are processed weekly and pay all invoices that fall due in advance of the next payment run.

Dispute resolution

Disputes must be registered and resolved with the requisitioner who raised the Purchase Order. When the dispute has been resolved, the requisitioner will process a receipt for the goods or service which will enable the invoice to be paid on the appropriate payment run. Accounts Payable report all invoices on hold on a weekly basis to the requisitioners and proactively follow up for a resolution to outstanding disputes.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20253016%5%6 Feb 2026
H1 20252612%3%11 Sept 2025
H2 20242712%2%31 Jan 2025
H1 20242717%3%2 Aug 2024
H2 20232516%3%31 Jan 2024
H1 20232417%3%31 Jul 2023
H2 20222315%3%31 Jan 2023
H1 20222618%4%27 Jul 2022
H2 20212921%7%9 May 2022
H1 20213228%8%9 May 2022
H2 20203227%8%9 May 2022
H1 20203216%6%30 Jul 2020
H1 20202812%5%12 May 2020
H2 20193014%5%31 Oct 2019
H1 20193317%9%30 Apr 2019
H2 20183120%10%30 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 30-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 30-day vs a 14-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 30-day cycle — about £6,300 more than the same account would carry at 14-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 6 days slower over the window (24 → 30 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 30, moving within about ±2 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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