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with a first ever win at a grand slam in the us open first round. today and tomorrow will be days of bright spells, showers, some of which will be thundering. we have rain coming in from the south during thursday. all the details rain coming in from the south during thursday. all the details later. it s tuesday the 29th of august. holidaymakers are facing days of travel disruption after a technical fault hit the uk s air traffic control system over the bank holiday. the problem has now been fixed, but thousands of passengers are still stranded. airlines have apologised and are urging people to check their flights before going to the airport. jon donnison reports. it was a nightmare bank holiday for air travellers with hundreds of flights cancelled and many more delayed. and it s not over yet. we were looking at alternative flights. there was nothing available from ba before thursday. and as we re scrolling through comparison sites, flights were disappearing. we ve now a ....
and 785 arrivals. heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. there were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. the technical fault was repaired within hours but the impacts continue today, with an estimated 281 flights affected so far. this is liverpool airport, where there s been confusion and some stress over cancelled departures. we ve been speaking to some of the travellers there. let s listen. i checked last night on the flight was still scheduled to go ahead. we got to the gate this morning and we were turned back. we woke up at 5am, received a notification from google, not even the airline itself, that it was cancelled. and i figured i had to get down here as well to figure out what to do. i did not receive any notification. it was a shock to me. i came to the airport and saw my flight had been cancelled. - turned up here and no e mail saying the flight was cancelled. i have got to wait ....
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good evening. the last bank holiday of the summer is always one of the busiest travel days of the year. and not the moment for a technical issue at air traffic control. nats, the body that runs uk airspace, says it has now identified and remedied a fault that affected the flight planning system, but for a large part of the day, they were operating manually on a greatly reduced schedule. which means there is still an enormous backlog of flights grounded across europe, with long, long delays. more than 500 flights in and out of the uk were cancelled. it could be 2a hours before some passengers will finally get it could be 2a or 48 hours before some passengers will finally get to their destinations. let s bring in aviation expert doug maclean, who worked in air traffic control for almost a0 years. good to see you. sympathies for all those people stranded outside the uk to mate, or at uk airports. what went wrong? there are always technical problems from time to time, but ....
knock on effects are substantial. and our other big story, prosecutors in spain have opened a preliminary investigation into spanish fa president luis rubiales kiss on the lips of playerjenni hermoso on grounds it could constitute a crime of sexual assault . the spanish football federation is also currently meeting now. we ll have more on this story in a moment. but first a technical issue has hit air traffic control systems across the uk. in the last half hour, britain s national air traffic service has released a statement with an update. it says that the issue affecting the flight planning system this morning has now been identified and remedied. and they are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the flights affected as efficiently as possible. monday marks the close of a holiday weekend here in the uk, so it s usually a very busy day for flights. airports across the country are currently facing delays and cancellations. airports in edinburgh, man ....