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With Naga Munchetty and charlie stayt, but first on bbc news, the travel show. This week on the show, our look at the Impact Global pandemic is having International Travel. Im stranded. Virgin cancelled my flight yesterday. Were trapped in a hotel what seems like 15 days. yesterday. Were trapped in a hotel what seems like 15 days. I would love get home, you. What are your rights if youve had trips cancelled. How do you cope if youre stuck in a country in lockdown and just what does the future hold for all of our troubles. Travels. Just a year ago and the headlines from places like paris and venice we re very from places like paris and venice were very different. We all learned the word over tourism as we saw that cafe s and attractions of some of oui cafe s and attractions of some of our most loved places heaving with holidaymakers. Its a very different picture now. Many destinations are in lockdown as people are being asked to stay at home to protect their health and that of others. I
are potentially pretty significant for many people are trying to move around and fly into the uk and out of the uk. to get a bit of background on what s gone on, i spoke to simon coulter, travel correspondent at the independent. nats is the national air traffic services, they run all the services across uk airspace. that it appears that their entire system, the digital air traffic control system, has failed, they are getting aircraft down safely but they are drastically reducing the so called flow rate, the rate at which aircraft can land. bear in mind that london heathrow is the busiest two runway airport in the world and london gatwick is the busiest single runway airport in the world, this is one of the busiest days of the year, hundreds of thousands of people coming back from various parts of