Gatwick airport has said it is back to “business as usual” and will not need to extend its capacity restraints beyond the end of the month.
The company said normal operations have resumed following months of strain on airports and airlines across Europe amid a surge in demand and staff shortages as pandemic restrictions eased.
The UK’s second-biggest airport also revealed it had returned to profit, making a profit after tax in the first half of the year of £50.6m, a turnaround on a £244.6m loss in the same period last year.
The airport had said in June that it was moderating the growth in the number of flights after major disruption over the platinum jubilee bank holiday.
Without constraints over the summer passengers would have experienced poor standards of service, Gatwick said, while queues would have been long and many flights would have been delayed or cancelled at the last minute.
