A smattering of whiteboards has been doing the job of updating travelers at the UK’s second-busiest airport for more than five hours after flight information screens stopped working at London Gatwick airport this morning (Aug. 20).
London Gatwick airport said on Twitter $TWTR that it had been forced to display flight information manually due to damage to a Vodafone fibre optic cable. An airport spokesperson told Quartz that the number of people who had missed their flights as a result of the issue was in “the low dozens.”
In 2017, 45.6 million passengers passed through the airport—and, like most airports, August is its busiest month.
