Sense of the scale of disruption caused by this, here are some figures we got from the aviation data firm that gives us an idea of how many people have been affected by this disruption today. so just over 3000 flights were due in the uk airports across today, and a further 3000 flights were due to take off from the uk today. and as of about a couple hours ago, they had some data on how many flights were affected. so they said 232 flights had been cancelled in terms of departures from uk airports today, which it saysis from uk airports today, which it says is the equivalent of around 8% of all expected departures today. and it said that 271 flights that were due to arrive today were cancelled, which was around the equivalent of 9% of all arrivals and it did cavity out that by saying