The Latest Breaking News from Gatwick

Gatwick restricts flight numbers for week amid air traffic control problems

Airport will share 164 cancellations between airlines until Sunday as it seeks to avoid diversions

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

More travel chaos after 300,000 hit by cancellations – and French error blamed for air traffic mayhem

Inquiry launched into whether faulty flight plan triggered outage – as disruption set to continue

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023

Travel chaos kicks off bank holiday weekend as British Airways and easyJet cancel dozens of flights

Exclusive: Thousands stranded overnight, with some easyJet passengers from Rhodes routed back to Gatwick via Edinburgh and Bristol

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2023

Tui sends plane to Africa instead of London Gatwick

Exclusive: Boeing 737 Max was diverted to Tunisia to drop off an aircraft part

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2023

EasyJet passengers exit plane after pilot warns them against travelling to fire-ravaged Rhodes

The pilot issued a stark warning to travellers on a flight heading to the holiday hotspot from Gatwick on Monday

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2023

Holiday chaos for 180,000 as easyJet cancels 1,700 flights

Budget airline axes 1,700 flights across July, August and September

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

Your refund rights explained hundreds of flights to Europe cancelled due to storm

Airports in the UK including Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick, are seeing lengthy delays for arrivals and departures to and from the Netherlands amid a strong storm on Wednesday

Daily Mirror · Jul 5, 2023

Water firms discharged raw sewage 300,000 times last year, court hears

Vast majority of releases were illegal, high court told – as Thames Water is fined £3.34m for sewage dumping in separate case

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2023

Thames Water fined £3.3 million after ‘millions of litres’ of sewage pumped into rivers near Gatwick

Thames Water had shown a ‘deliberate attempt’ to mislead the Environment Agency over the incident

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2023

TUI opens bookings for Lapland 2024 holidays including Father Christmas meet and greets

TUI is selling its snowy breaks to the likes of Kittila, Rovaniemi, Ivalo and Kuusamo in Finnish Lapland for the 2024 season already, with flights leaving from Gatwick, Birmingham, East Midlands, Newcastle, Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester

Daily Mirror · Jun 29, 2023