Travel disruption could last for days after flights were cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded following an air traffic control technical fault.
Holidaymakers were hit by bank holiday.
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A care worker has told LBC he might have to take unpaid leave while his teacher wife will be late back to school after an Air Traffic Control glitch means he will be stranded in Portugal for a week.