More details: See hereMillions of people are facing travel disruption on roads, railways and flights across the Easter Bank Holiday this weekend.
More than 300 engineering projects are being carried out by Network Rail across Britain between Good Friday and Easter Monday, with train journeys from major stations including London Euston and London Victoria being affected.
On the roads, the RAC predicted there will be more than 19 million journeys taking place from Thursday through to Easter Monday and warned of widespread congestion on key routes including the M25 , M6 and M5.
Meanwhile some baggage handlers, check-in staff and flight dispatchers at Gatwick Airport are on strike over a dispute involving pay and pensions.
A yellow weather warning has also been issued for two areas of Northern Ireland, with heavy rain and possible flooding forecast.
More than 100 members of Unite the Union are on strike today and until Tuesday at London's Gatwick Airport, meaning passengers could face delays.
Those flying with Norwegian, Air Mauritius, Delta, TAP,Ethiopian Airlines and Air Peace airlines could face 'major disruption' after staff working for the ground handling firm Red Handling voted to go on strike, the union said.
Last-minute attempts to reach a deal on Thursday failed, however Nick Williams, head of passenger operations at Gatwick, told the BBC they don't believe there is a ' big-scale impact' as just a handful of airlines are on strike.
'We're working really closely with those airlines to try and mitigate that impact and hope that as many of those flights operate as close to schedule as possible,' he said.
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