George Carden
BBC Radio Sussex, at Gatwick Airport
John Mather arrived at Gatwick from Costa Rica earlier and tells me that the situation at the airport is “chaos”.
“We landed at the South Terminal which is completely closed,” he says. “We were then bussed to the North Terminal, where we went through immigration and collected our bags.
John goes on to say that “no one seems to know what they are doing” in the North Terminal, and he had “no help whatsoever from airport or security staff”.
I spoke to John at a bus stop, which he walked to because, as he puts it, “everything seems to be closed at the North Terminal”.
He knows that in normal circumstances he could catch a bus from here to his home in Croydon, as he has done so during previous train strikes, but says there has no bus for an hour-and-a-half.
John says his only option now is to walk to Horley, which will take him 30 minutes, from where he can catch a train home.
“It’s hopeless, I’m stuck here”, he says. “Croydon is only 20 minutes down the line on the train, but it looks like its going to take me hours to get back”.
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