By Jessica Frank-Keyes Gatwick Airport reportedly says it expects to pay out its first shareholder dividends in five years, with passenger numbers set to be back at pre-pandemic levels next year. The airport, the UK’s second-largest, will be among the first European airports to reinstate shareholder dividend payouts since the coronavirus pandemic first spread in 2020. Gatwick told the Financial Times it “expects” to make the payment this year to a group of international owners headed up by the French infrastructure group Vinci. The airport also expects passenger numbers to be nearly back at pr…