Flight disruption recovery ongoing at Birmingham and East Midlands
Air traffic control problems triggered widespread delays and groundings, with Birmingham and East Midlands airports now slowly clearing backlogs and warning of continued disruption.
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Air traffic control problems triggered widespread delays and groundings, with Birmingham and East Midlands airports now slowly clearing backlogs and warning of continued disruption.
Manchester Airport passengers face fresh disruption as 32 flights are cancelled or delayed following a major UK air traffic control issue and ongoing knock-on effects.
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Flights are taking off again across the UK after a major air traffic control outage, but airports caution that knock-on disruption and cancellations will continue.
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Etihad cancels one London Heathrow service and delays two more as a UK air traffic control failure forces widespread flight disruptions for a second day.
Britain’s air traffic control provider says a technical fault, not a cyber attack, triggered mass flight disruption as airlines and passengers face extended knock‑on delays.
A fresh air traffic control glitch in the UK, plus knock‑on effects and weather‑related restrictions elsewhere, is causing widespread delays and cancellations worldwide.
Birmingham and East Midlands airports are still clearing backlogs after a UK air traffic control fault halted departures and triggered widespread delays and cancellations.
Thousands of passengers face cancellations and rolling delays as UK airports and airlines work to recover from a major air traffic control systems outage.
A major NATS flight-planning system failure has triggered more than 1,000 UK flight cancellations, with knock-on disruption and passenger delays expected to last for days.
UK air traffic control disruption has entered a second day, with more than 1,300 flights cancelled and the Nats chief called in by the transport secretary.