Flight disintegration after Britain’s leading air traffic outage

Air passengers have faced significant disruption after bringing the airports in the air traffic control outage to a standstill.

The technical problem lasted only 20 minutes, but a large backlog of flights and delays.

Thousands of aircraft were placed on the ground at airports including Heathro, Stanstad, Manchester and Edinburgh. More than 150 flights from the UK and the UK were canceled, 22:00 as BST.

Air traffic control firm Nats said the issue was “radar-related” and was quickly resolved by switching to a back-up system, and it had reduced flight traffic to ensure security. It was said that there was no evidence that the incident was related to cyber.

The government said that it was “working closely” to understand what was wrong with nuts.

This is the second time in two years when Nats have faced a big outage.

Nuts apologized for the outage.

past event, Which took place in August 2023 on Summer Bank Holiday Weekend, affected over 700,000 customers.

Nuts said the latest incident saw that it limits the number of aircraft in the London region due to the “technical issue” at Hampshire’s Swanvick Air Traffic Control Center.

It soon reports that the engineers “restored the system that was affected”.

But several aircraft in the UK were placed on the ground, while the system was down, while others were to be diverted at separate airports.

When the departure resumed, Nuts stated that it was “working with affected airlines and airports and to safely clean the backlog”.

British Airways said it was still dealing with effects.

“While it is completely out of our control, we want to apologize to our customers for any inconvenience and assure them that our teams are working hard to bring their journey back to the track as soon as possible,” the airline said.

Budget Airline Easyzet advised customers traveling on Wednesday evening to examine up-to-date information on their flights, and said that it would directly contact the affected customers.

A spokesman for Heathro said: “We are advising passengers to investigate with our airline before traveling. We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Birmingham Airport says its schedule is expected to run normally on Thursday, while Manchester does not expect any further impact.

Manchester’s 18 -year -old Asha found herself “stuck” in an easy aircraft on Termac at the city airport at 18:00 pm.

He said that her “first holiday intimacy” [has] Got wrong ”

Asha was on a 15:10 flight for Amsterdam, which flew, but was in the air for 50 minutes before turning around.

Asha said some flight people wanted to get off the aircraft.

She was “expecting some free food” for disintegration.

A delayed passenger said the pilot was “disappointed like everyone”.

Robin Ilot, 62, from Walloville in Hampshire, said he would face a delay of two hours and 20 minutes in Heathro.

But he said: “It is better than sorry, you don’t want to get up there and find that there are planes everywhere.”

John Carr, 35, from Starbridge, is the best man at his brother’s wedding in Norway and when his flight was canceled, he was on his way there with a group of friends.

“We have got to rehearsal the wedding. It’s quite tense,” he told the PA news agency.

His friend James Hedes, also from Storbridge, stated that there was no “no warning” from the airport or airline before the flight was canceled, the situation was described as “rubbish”.

“There is nothing we can,” he said.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davi called upon the government to investigate the “completely unacceptable” incident.

“Preparing to go on a well -earned break with thousands of families, it’s not just good,” he said.

Ryanier’s Chief Operating Officer Neil McMahon said “So far another” failure of the air traffic control system “has been disrupted by thousands of passengers’ travel plans”.

He said it was “derogatory” that the air traffic control issue has disrupted thousands of passengers’ plans, and called NATS CEO Martin Rolf to resign.

According to flight data firm Syrium, 84 departures and 71 arrival at all UK airports have been canceled. This is equal to 3% of all departure and 2% of all arrival.

Apart from this, many flights had to be taken to European airports, it said.

London Heathro had a total number of total number, total 29 departs and 17 arrival.

Cirium does not credits the reasons for canceling, so some air traffic may not be caused by outage.