The airport said it expects today to be very busy, with more than 700 flights scheduled to take off.
A spokesman said: “The airport is operating normally today, but will be occupied by about 733 flights. We continue to advise passengers to arrive at the airport as soon as check-in for their flight opens. This is usually three hours for long distances and two to two and a half for short distances.
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“At 8.30 there were no security queues at the airport in the North Terminal, 10-minute queues in the South Terminal. The accommodation areas are occupied, but there are no significant queues. ”
The airport said the airlines were responsible for flight schedules and handling passengers in airport check-in areas, departure gates, and loading, unloading and returning luggage to passengers.
Airports across the country are facing huge queues after the removal of Covid travel restrictions. The pandemic has a huge impact on airports in two ways.
In the short term, current levels of staff illness are higher than normal, but in the long term, thousands of aviation professionals have left the industry, taking with them everything from decades of experience to security clearance.
British Airways and easyJet are two airlines that have had widespread cancellations in recent months.
The queue at Gatwick at 6.30 am on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
Gatwick is one of the airports that has not suffered from long queues compared to Manchester, Birmingham and Belfast.
However, some passengers turned to Twitter to say they are still experiencing a long wait from today (June 2).
Katie Howard tweeted: “Picking up luggage at 3:10 this morning. There seems to be no arriving luggage and about 9 flights are waiting and still arriving. There are no updates. I’m getting ready for 2 hours of waiting. “
Queues at Gatwick Airport on Monday, May 23, 2022
There were no airport security queues on Tuesday (May 31st) and most of the inspection areas were congested but without significant queues, with the exception of Vueling.
One posted by Tony Brown on Twitter was; “I just landed on @Gatwick_Airport and some people at # Luggage Recovery say they’ve been waiting for bags for more than two hours.”
Rick M Kim tweeted on Monday (May 30th): “The busiest I’ve seen, but @Gatwick_Airport was a very well-organized, efficient, friendly staff. Very well done. The best in the UK in my opinion. ”
@ jlb26_ tweeted: “I walked through Gatwick Airport in 30-40 minutes this morning, many bagging terminals are open and security seems busy, but it’s moving pretty fast, not as bad as it turns out.”
Queues at Gatwick Airport on Monday, May 23, 2022
On Monday, May 23, disgruntled passengers said there were two-hour queues for security checks. On Tuesday, May 24, Crawley Observer was told that all queues were gone.
On Wednesday, May 25, passengers tweeted about the queues again. Rachel Rose tweeted: “I’ve never seen such a long security queue at @Gatwick_Airport. Good job, I still have a few years in my passport or it will expire before I finish. Seeing parts of the airport that I didn’t know existed !! ”
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