Gatwick rail passengers told to allow extra time this week
Passengers taking the train to Gatwick airport this week are being advised to allow extra time, as a five-day Monday-Friday strike is expected to disrupt travel.
The Gatwick Express and Thameslink services are expected to operate as normal, but services will be very busy as around 40% of Southern Rail have been cancelled between today and Friday, the last day of the strike.
In a statement on its website Gatwick airport advised passengers to ‘please allow extra time for your journey to the airport’.
During the strike, first class on Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink services will be declassified to free up seats.
Passengers with first-class tickets will be entitled to a refund for the difference between a first-class ticket and a standard-class ticket on the affected dates.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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