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Luton Airport cancels ALL flights after runway melts in extreme heatwave



 Luton Airport cancels ALL flights after runway melts in intense heatwave

Luton Airport is utilized by airlines such as EasyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair and TUI as temperatures in Luton have reached 36C nowadays

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A popular UK airport has suspended all of its flights after the tarmac melted in modern-day boiling temperatures.

Luton Airport is used by airlines which include EasyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair and TUI as temperatures in Luton have reached 36C today.

Flights that are inbound to the airport are not being diverted as repairs are being accomplished.

The ultimate flight to take off was believed to had been at 3.07pm. The airport only has one runway.

One livid passenger tweeted: "How lengthy will this take?!?!?"

Another wrote: "They have simply closed the runway at Luton airport for at least an hour. We have been just about to be driven again and that they stopped the whole thing. Inbound flights are being diverted.”

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Luton Airport has suspended flights within the cutting-edge heatwave

Luton Airport has suspended flights in the modern-day heatwave ( Image: AFP through Getty Images)

A spokesperson for Luton Airport stated: "Following contemporary excessive temperatures, a surface defect turned into identified on the runway.

"Engineers had been referred to as straight away to the website online- and repair works are presently in progress to renew operations as quickly as viable.

"We would love to apologise for the inconvenience triggered."

The RAF has additionally halted flights inside and out of its largest air base within the UK, Brize Norton, due to the fact the "runway has melted", in line with reports.

Flights inside and outside of the airport had been suspended

Flights inside and out of the airport were suspended ( Image: Getty Images)

It comes as elements of the country could see Death Valley highs of 42C these days as Brits are warned to "live indoors, do as low as feasible" and avoid public shipping as the heatwave forces hospitals to cancel appointments and a few colleges near.

The upward thrust in temperatures has forced the United Kingdom Health Security Agency to trouble a degree four warmness-fitness alert along the Met Office crimson warning running from Monday to Wednesday and the leader executive of the College of Paramedics has warned that the “ferocious warmness” should bring about humans demise.

Temperatures had been stated to have reached 36C nowadays in Luton

Temperatures were stated to have reached 36C these days in Luton ( Image: UIG through Getty Images)

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Earlier nowadays, the best temperature on document in Wales has now risen to 37.1C in Hawarden, Flintshire, provisional Met Office figures display.


By 3pmt today, the very best recorded temperature turned into 37.5C (ninety nine.5F) at Kew Gardens in west London, according to the Met Office.


Cavendish in Suffolk had reached 37.4C (99.3F), Santon Downham, also in Suffolk, changed into 37.2C (ninety eight.9F) and Wisley, Surrey, noticed temperatures of 37.2C (ninety eight.9F).


Water corporations have warned urgent action is wanted to conserve resources in components of the United Kingdom.


Doctors have warned of a threat to life or capacity serious contamination from the blistering temperatures.

Recommended precautions consist of fending off bodily exercise, maintaining to the coloration and keeping ventilation, ingesting plenty of water and using in-date solar cream.

People were warned towards the usage of rivers and lakes to chill off due to the dangers of swimming in open water

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