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Gatwick airport flights suspended: Flight delays today runway closed – are you affected?


Flights from Gatwick have been suspended due to an issue with air traffic control.

There are flight delays, but how do you know if your travel plans are delayed?

The airport tweeted: “Due to an air traffic control systems issue in Gatwick’s control tower, flights are currently suspended.

“We are working with ANS, our air traffic control provider, to rectify this issue as quickly as possible.”

The problem was revealed at 5:45.

One Twitter user has said: “First time in 5 years I’ve put my out of office on my email for holiday. And first holiday since March 2018. So what do you think has happened? #Gatwick runway closes because of a computer problem in the tower.”

Another tweeted Gatwick: “Sitting on a plane waiting to get going. Please provide the aircraft with up to date information, pilots saying they’ve heard nothing!”

One claimed: “Pilot said they’ll get us off the plane.”

They added: “Just been told from the pilot that nothing is landing or coming in for another half hour.”

One woman revealed her plane had been grounded at Southend due to the issues at the airport.

She tweeted: “Had to land in Southend due to stupid planes being stupid. We’re not even allowed to get off here, we have to wait until it’s safe to fly back to Gatwick.”

Another said: “What’s your recovery plan gatwick? It has been down for 40 minutes. Surely you have a back up system considering the obvious implications of one core system going down?”

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