The airport said it expects it to be very busy today, with more than 700 flights scheduled to depart.
A spokesman said: “The airport is operating normally today, but it will be busy with about 733 flights. We continue to advise passengers to arrive at the airport as soon as check-in for their flight is opened. Normally, it’s three hours for the long haul and two to two and a half for the short haul.
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“As of 8.30am there were no queues for airport security at the north terminal, 10 minutes queues at the south terminal. The entrance areas are busy but there are no major queues.”
The airport said the airlines are responsible for their flight schedules and the management of their passengers in the airport check-in areas, departure gates and also for loading, unloading and delivery. ‘luggage to passengers.
Airports across the country have faced long queues after Covid’s travel restrictions were lifted. The pandemic is having a big impact on airports in two ways.
In the short term, current staffing levels are higher than normal, but in the long run thousands of aviation professionals have left the industry, taking everything from decades of experience to licensing. security.
British Airways and easyJet are two airlines that have had widespread cancellations in recent months.
The queue at Gatwick at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 26, 2022
Gatwick is one of the airports that has not had long queues compared to Manchester, Birmingham and Belfast.
However, some passengers have used Twitter to say that they were still experiencing long waits, starting today (June 2).
Katie Howard tweeted: “Baggage retrieval at 3:10 this morning. There seems to be no luggage entering and about 9 flights waiting and more arriving. No updates either. hours.”
Queues at Gatwick Airport on Monday, May 23, 2022
On Tuesday (May 31st) there were no queues for airport security and the vast majority of check-in areas were busy but there were no major queues, with the exception of Vueling.
One post raised by Tony Brown on Twitter was; “I just landed at @Gatwick_Airport and some #baggage reclaim people say they’ve been waiting for their bags for over two hours.”
On Monday (May 30th), Rik M Kim tweeted: “The busiest I’ve ever seen, but @Gatwick_Airport was very well organized, efficient and staff friendly. Very well done. The best in the UK in my opinion.”
@ jlb26_ tweeted: “I’ve been to Gatwick Airport in 30-40 minutes this morning, a lot of open baggage terminals and security seems busy, but it’s moving pretty fast, not as bad as it is thinking”.
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, the Crawley Observer was told that all the queues were gone.
On Wednesday, May 25, passengers tweeted again about the queues. Rachel Rose tweeted: “I’ve never seen such a long queue for security at @Gatwick_Airport. Good job, I still have a few years on my passport or it would expire before I pass it. Seeing parts of the airport I didn’t know existed !! ”