Suella Braverman says the ongoing disruption facing Britain’s incoming and outgoing flights is an ‘evolving’ issue. Thousands of air travellers around the world face delays on Monday as Britain’s air traffic control system is hit by a breakdown that is slowing takeoffs and landings across the UK on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Speaking from Manchester, the home secretary says engineers are working intensively to find the cause.
More than three hours after it reporting the ‘technical issue’, flight control operator National Air Traffic Services says it has ‘identified and remedied’ the problem. NATS says the outage has hit its ability to process flight plans automatically, meaning the plans have to be input manually, a much slower process
Thousands stranded or delayed by UK air traffic control ‘technical issue’
