Thousands of holidaymakers are suffering fresh disruption on Monday as more flights are delayed and cancelled at Gatwick Airport. Thick fog forced airlines to rip up schedules over the weekend, causing misery for travelers seeking to escape the winter gloom and see in the New Year abroad.

Fog is continuing to disrupt flights at Gatwick Airport with restrictions imposed to maintain safety. On what is expected to be the airport's busiest day of the Christmas period, it said some flights "may be delayed throughout the day" due to "poor visibility" and apologised to customers.

Flights to everywhere from Belfast and Tenerife to Kraków, Poland, and Accra, Ghana, have been delayed by as much as an hour and a half this morning. Live arrivals boards also show slight delays to incoming flights. According to the monitoring website FlightStats, the delays are ‘excessive and increasing’.

Between Boxing Day and Sunday, of the 29 flights to Gatwick, 10 were cancelled and many of the rest of the flights were heavily delayed due to fog at Guernsey and later around Gatwick, which was particularly badly affected on Sunday.

Poor weather is disrupting services at Gatwick Airport with a number of easyJet flights "now unable to operate as planned", the airline has said with delays in place this evening

Tens of thousands of passengers have had their Christmas travel disrupted in recent days as thick fog has descended on airports.

Passengers at Gatwick Airport are facing disruption due to heavy fog. Air traffic restrictions are in place at several UK airports due to fog, the country's main air traffic control provider Nats has said. The airport in West Sussex is the second busiest in the UK.

More than 20 flights planned for the West Sussex airport on Monday were cancelled in advance and passengers are being warned of delays throughout the day.

Thousands of passengers at Gatwick Airport are facing delays for a fourth day in a row after severe fog led to widespread disruption over the Christmas period. More than 20 flights set to leave the airport today have been cancelled in advance while passengers have been told to expect delays.

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