![]() ![]() And have just been told UK airspace is shut. The BBC presenter Gabby Logan said on X that her plane was stuck on the runway at Budapest airport, adding: “After almost three weeks away from home I am hours from hugging my family. The travel operator Tui warned its customers to expect “significant delays to some of our flights”.įlights from Ireland were also affected, with many due to cross UK airspace.Īs well as holidaymakers, passengers affected by delays included British athletes and others returning from the World Athletics Championships in Hungary. We’re working as hard as possible to get customers whose flights have been affected on their way again and have apologised for the huge inconvenience caused.” Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/APĪ British Airways spokesperson said: “Like all airlines using UK airspace, our flights have been severely disrupted … While Nats has now resolved the issue, it has created significant and unavoidable delays and cancellations. Teams across Heathrow are working as hard as they can to minimise the knock-on impacts and assist those whose journeys have been affected.”Ī departures board at Heathrow airport, London, shows cancellations of many British Airways flights. They added: “We ask passengers to only travel to the airport if their flight is confirmed as still operating. Please contact your airline for information on how this may affect your flight.”Īccording to data from the analytics firm Cirium, 232 outbound flights from the UK and 271 inbound flights had been cancelled by 2.30pm, just under 10% of all services.Ī Heathrow spokesperson said schedules would “remain significantly disrupted for the rest of the day”. “Our priority is always to ensure that every flight in the UK remains safe and we are sincerely sorry for the disruption this is causing. Our engineers will be carefully monitoring the system’s performance as we return to normal operations. Nats confirmed the problem at about 12.10pm, saying it was “currently experiencing a technical issue” and had “applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety”.Īfter announcing it had fixed the original issue, Nats said: “We are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the flights affected as efficiently as possible. Gatwick said in a statement they would “operate a normal schedule” on Tuesday, but said passengers were “advised to check the status of their flight with the airline before travelling to the airport”.Īccording to flight tracking sites, planes were delayed from about 11.30am. The airline could not yet confirm what flights would operate on Tuesday but it is understood to expect some continuing impact on its schedules. The unusually long outage is likely to cause disruption for several days, with knock-on delays from crew and planes left out of position.īritish Airways said passengers due to travel on Monday or Tuesday could move their flights free of charge, while Heathrow on Monday evening urged passengers to come to the airport only if flights were confirmed as operating.Īt Gatwick, where about 150 flights were scrapped, easyJet cancelled virtually all departing international flights on Monday afternoon. Passengers at airports in the UK and around Europe reported being left in limbo with travel plans wrecked and check-in desks closed, while airlines were unable to confirm if their flights would leave. With controllers forced to input flight plans manually, about 500 flights were cancelled and others delayed for hours even before Nats, the national airspace controllers, announced at 3.15pm that it had “identified and remedied” the issue that arose almost four hours earlier. ![]() ![]() A limited number of flights were able to operate but air traffic was severely restricted as engineers struggled to locate and rectify the problem.
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