Police have released two people arrested in connection with a “suspicious package” at Gatwick Airport

George Carden
BBC Radio Sussex at Gatwick Airport

John Mather arrived at Gatwick from Costa Rica earlier and tells me the situation at the airport is “chaos”.

“We landed at the south terminal, which is completely closed,” he says. “We were then taken by bus 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 “had no help from the airport or security staff.”

I talked to John at the bus stop, which he walked to because, as he put it, “everything seems to be closed at the North Terminal.”

He knows that under normal circumstances he could catch a bus from here to his home in Croydon, as he did during previous train strikes, but he says there will be no bus for an hour and a half.

John says all he needs to do now is walk to Horley, which will take him 30 minutes, and from there he can catch the train home.

“It’s hopeless, I’m stuck here,” he says. “Croydon is only a 20-minute train ride away, but it looks like it will take me a few hours to get back.”