An EasyJet pilot wrote 32 absence notes for students after a delay caused them to miss their classes.

Captain Wayne Mott penned the notes for 31 children and a teacher after fog delayed their flight for 20 hours.

The group had been travelling with their parents from Cyprus to London Gatwick after a week's holiday in the sun.

31 children and a teacher requested absence notes after heavy fog delayed a flight from Cyprus to London Gatwick last month (file photo)

Dozens of kids were on the EasyJet flight, which was due back on November 1.

However, the heavy fog meant that they couldn't touch down until the afternoon of the next day.

This meant that the entire group missed their classes on November 2.

During the flight, Captain Mott spoke over the tannoy to worried parents and kids, telling them he would personally write absence notes to headteachers.

The children had been in Cyprus for a week of sun with their parents and were scheduled to be back on November 1

He was stunned when he got requests for letter from 31 kids and one teacher.

Captain Mott said last week: 'Over the tannoy I jokingly said that if anyone needed a note for school the next day then I would write them one.

'But I then got the request for 32 of them. I even got one from a teacher.'

Joshua Skuse, an eight-year-old pupil at Herne Junior School in Petersfield, Hampshire, showed his letter to his teacher, who has now asked Captain Mott to come in and give a talk to pupils.

The note given to Joshua read: 'I am very sorry that Joshua was not at school today.

'He has been involved in a secret mission in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at very short notice.