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Almost 1,000 flights were grounded and cancelled with several more delayed after Britain s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said it experienced technical issues .
Britain s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was hit by a technical problem for several hours on Monday, causing widespread disruption to flights in UK airspace that it said would continue for some time on Tuesday even though the issue was fixed.The air traffic control agency earlier had to restric
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.
The UK air traffic control failure will be investigated “very thoroughly” after hundreds of flights were estimated to have been cancelled at the end of the bank holiday weekend. Juliet Kennedy, operations director at National Air Traffic Services (Nats), the country’s leading provider of air traffic control, said in a statement that “it will take a long time” for flights to return to normal. Holidaymakers were hit by travel delays as a result of the UK air traffic control failure. Nats said at 3.15pm on Monday 28 August that it had “identified and remedied” the technical issue affecting its systems.