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| Hundreds of passengers diverted from Gatwick Airport | |
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| More than a thousand passengers expecting to arrive at London Gatwick have been diverted to other airports after flights were unable to land. | |
| Planned urgent maintenance on the main runway and poor visibility meant 24 flights due to land after 00:10 BST had to be re-directed to Stansted, Luton, Heathrow and Bristol airports. | |
| Travellers affected are now being put on coaches and driven back to Gatwick. | Travellers affected are now being put on coaches and driven back to Gatwick. |
| The airport says there could be delays throughout the morning. | The airport says there could be delays throughout the morning. |
| A second landing strip at Gatwick remained open while engineers were carrying out the work to the airport's main runway. But the weather conditions resulted in the short and medium-haul flights diverted. | |
| A Gatwick spokesman said: "We had some planned runway maintenance works scheduled for last night which all flight operators were informed about and when we do that we have to use our second runway... | |
| "We then suffered some fog which led to 24 aircraft being diverted." | |
| Passengers on Easyjet, British Airways and Thomson flights were affected by the disruption. | |
| Three BA short-haul flights due to depart Gatwick on Wednesday morning have been cancelled because of the disruption. | |
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