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Sunday 20 September 2020
A spokesperson confirmed the issue involved a flight which arrived from Poland.
A vehicle was cleared onto the runway in front of an Aer Lingus jet which was travelling at over 110km/h.
The couple was completely innocent.
The airport is offering a €56,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the disruption.
Flights resumed at Gatwick yesterday, but knock-on delays are still affecting passengers this weekend.
More delays have been experienced.
It will take some days for services to return to normal after drones caused travel chaos at the busy airport.
Two drones were first seen flying over the Gatwick Airport airfield at around 9pm yesterday evening.
The flights were cancelled due to “lengthy waiting times for de-icing”.
The flight departed several hours late from Gatwick on Thursday.
Five flights were diverted from the airport – including one BA plane, which was sent to Bournemouth.
The meltdown, which saw 75,000 passengers stranded, was at first suspected to be the result of a cyber attack.
All flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick were suspended yesterday following the delays.
Steven Gary Hydes was abandoned as a baby on 10 April, 1986.
The family have been given no explanation and will not be refunded for their £9,000 trip.
The airport worker – along with three others – was jailed for smuggling almost a million euro worth of drugs.
Police said a suspicious item had sparked a security alert.
As one passenger put it, the man had a falling out with airline staff after they asked him to “put a bag in a bag”.
Quite literally. There could be 158 million barrels worth of the stuff beneath Gatwick Airport alone.
A fault in the landing gear forced the plane to turn back earlier today.
The 59-year-old targeted people who were travelling on their own, waited until they were distracted, and then took their bags.
Passengers at Dublin Airport were among thousands affected by the technical problem.
The airline has said that there is no mayday situation onboard. The plane dumped or burned off fuel over the Irish Sea before turning back.
Figures compiled by Eurostat show that passenger numbers in Ireland fell by a greater proportion than those of any other.
Aer Lingus and Ryanair flights are among those affected by heavy snowfall in the UK and on the continent.
Fumes were discovered in the rear of the cabin of a flight from northern Spain to London last month.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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