Airport traffic control chaos: Travellers stranded across the world afer UK air traffic control fault

Flights are still cancelled and delayed at various airports across the UK and Europe today (Tuesday, August 29) following a UK air traffic control technical fault which has caused chaos across the country. Holidaymakers were hit by bank holiday travel delays, which started on Monday after the failure meant flight plans had to be input manually by controllers.

By Monday afternoon, 232 flights departing UK airports had been cancelled and 271 arriving flights, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. This equates to about eight per cent of all expected departures and nine per cent of expected arrivals, Cirium added.

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Delays and cancellations have left families from Wales stranded in various European airports. Those that spoke to WalesOnline said that they were feeling "annoyed and anxious" about the situation.

National Air Traffic Services (Nats), the country’s leading provider of air traffic control, said at 3.15pm yesterday that it had "identified and remedied" the technical issue affecting its systems and it was working with airlines and airports to support affected flights.

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