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’.