Category: Gatwick airport

Children being traumatised at Gatwick deportation centre, finds watchdog

Assessment finds detention unit is subjecting families to ‘unnecessary suffering’ amid lengthy Home Office delaysYoung children are being traumatised while held at a Gatwick airport deportation centre that should be...

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E-gates ‘back online’ after chaos at Heathrow and other UK airports

Travellers at Edinburgh and Manchester among those who faced delays; Home Office and Heathrow announce system back online for WednesdayPassengers experienced delays at a number of UK airports on Tuesday due to a nationwide...

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Ignoring call to halt new airports would be ‘electoral carnage’, Sunak warned

Campaigners speak out amid suggestion government could reject Climate Change Committee’s advice Rishi Sunak faces “electoral carnage” if the government rejects its climate advisers’ recommendations on...

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Hundreds more flights cancelled amid fallout from UK air traffic control failure

Airlines told to take ‘every possible step’ to aid stranded passengers as costs of travel disruption mountHundreds more flights were cancelled on Tuesday as the fallout from Monday’s UK air traffic control...

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Airlines must take ‘every possible step’ to aid stranded passengers, No 10 says

Prime minister speaks out as delays and cancellations continue after Monday’s UK air traffic control failureAirlines should “take every possible step” to help passengers stranded and disrupted by the UK air...

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Air passengers face further delays after UK air traffic control failure

Transport minister rules out cyber-attack after hundreds of flights to and from the UK cancelledFlight passengers will be affected by UK air traffic control failures for days, the transport secretary has warned as he urged...

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‘Technical issue’ hits UK air traffic control as passengers warned of long delays – latest updates

UK airspace hit by a network-wide failure for air traffic control systems and ‘traffic flow restrictions’ imposedThe Glasgow-based airline, Loganair, warned customers they may experience delays after a...

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Travel firms should have been ready for post-Covid surge, UK minister says

Disruption caused by surge in post-pandemic holidays could have been avoided, arts minister saysThe travel industry should have been better prepared for a surge in post-pandemic holidays, a government minister has said, after...

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