UK air traffic control outage disrupts flights

NATS Failure Causes 1,300 UK Flight Cancellations

A technical failure at the UK air traffic control provider NATS disrupted departures across major airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Stansted and Bristol, with travellers advised to check flight times as flights were grounded, delayed or slowed. Engineers were on site at Swanwick and across the network to restore operations, highlighting a nationwide disruption to the flight processing system and ongoing contingency efforts.

UK air traffic control glitch prompts hundreds of flight cancellations