is one of the hundreds of thousands of passengers caught up in the travel delay chaos following a technical fault.
Computers went down in a network-wide outage on Monday, causing more than 500 flights to be cancelled.
Despite the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) saying it had ‘identified and remedied’ the technical issue on Monday afternoon, nearly one million people had been due to travel in and out of the UK yesterday.
On Monday afternoon, Dawn, 44, took to Instagram to share her frustrations from and ask for advice.
‘Anyone with any knowledge know if there is any chance of landing at Gatwick today? Should I go through security or not? THAT IS THE QUESTION,’ she asked.
‘On my own with the kids so deffo don’t want to be stuck there for the night. Obvs no one here knows anything,’ the presenter and author added.
‘Sorry for everyone travelling today. Such bull***t.’
Dawn is married to , 43, with whom she shares two sons – Art, eight, .
Four hours later, she updated her followers in the comments, writing: ‘Looks like I’ll be in Mallorca for a while. What a s**t show. Thanks everyone. I hope you all get home OK.’
In an extremely relatable note, she shared: ‘I’m heading back to the island to find wine.’
Followers sharing their situations in the comments weren’t faring well either, with one sharing: ‘We’ve been sat on the plane on the runway at Palma airport for 3 hours ?’
Another fan was stuck sitting on the tarmac in Cofu, Greece, six hours ahead of their flight’s updated slot and after the current crew would have to be deboarded.
‘Don’t go through security!! We wish we hadn’t. And really, really, really wish they hadn’t boarded us,’ she added.
Her next Instagram update last night was rather more resigned as she simply typed out for a screenshot she shared on her grid: ‘I live in Mallorca now.’
‘Thanks @easyjet for cancelling our flight and offering LITERALLY no way to get home for at least a week. Can’t wait to recommend you to all my friends on Instagram,’ she posted in the comments.
BBC Radio 1 DJ has meanwhile been stuck at Malaga airport where he shared the devastating update that they’d ‘ran out of beer at the terminal’, while Love Island star Montana Brown as she was so thirsty while trapped in a UK airport and trying to leave for a summer holiday.
An easyJet spokesperson told Metro.co.uk in response for a request for comment: ‘Due to the UK air traffic control systems failure yesterday causing widespread disruption to flights operating to and from the UK, some flights have been unable to operate and we are doing everything possible to minimise the impact of the disruption, providing customers on cancelled flights with the option to transfer for free or receive a refund.
‘Due to the disruption impacting all airlines at this busy time of year for travel, we understand that availability on some direct routes is limited at this time and so we are also advising customers who make their own alternative travel arrangements that they will be reimbursed and while this is outside of our control we are very sorry for the difficulty this will have caused.
‘The safety and wellbeing of our customers is our highest priority.’
The subsequent chaos has now affected more than 1,200 flights and is .
This is due to the magnitude of the cancellations yesterday and a knock-on effect into Tuesday, compounded with the already busy flights this week as the summer holidays start to draw to a close.
