'Welcome to Luton' stunt panics Gatwick Airport arrivals

[yorkie]

'Welcome to Luton' stunt panics Gatwick Airport arrivals

YouTuber, Max Fosh, says the "prank" is to put smiles on faces and is sorry for any confusion caused.

www.bbc.co.uk

Air passengers have been left panicked and confused after a "Welcome to Luton" sign appeared near Gatwick Airport.
The 60m (197ft) sign is visible on the approach to Gatwick - which is about 60 miles south of Luton.
Abbey Desmond, from Great Dunmow, Essex, said when she spotted it out of the window on landing it left her in a "state of panic".

He currently has permission for the words to be there for six weeks, so "if you're flying into Gatwick have a look out your left window you should see it about 90 seconds before landing."

I don't suppose this would fool many people here! Has anyone here seen it?

 

[Gloster]

This has been done before. One long-ago April 1 somebody put a sign visible to passengers coming into land at one of the US airports: it was ‘Welcome to Chicago’ at LA (or similar).

 

[pdeaves]

See also https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-and-in-other-news-thread.147498/page-18

 

[WatcherZero]

I was amused that RAF Luton twitter account had to put out a statement that it wasnt him lol.