BraceBrace,
The severely reduced flow rates during the day on the Sunday meant that most of the airbuses in Europe were facing hideous CTOT’s for their return to LGW. I’m led to believe there were a significant number of unscheduled nightstops that evening as crew hours ran out. In addition, handling at LGW was severely affected as the North side of Pier 1 and pier 3 were wearing the brunt of the winds. We ran out of hours before push, despite being assigned a jet that arrived the previous day. This is in addition to any go around sand diversions etc.
i hope this information is helpful to you.