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Virgin Atlantic Airways Airbus A350-1000 aircraft seen taxiing in front of the air traffic control tower at London Heathrow Airport in the UK
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The UK air traffic control provider said on Monday it had “identified and fixed” a previous technical problem that caused flights to be disrupted across the country.
In an afternoon update, the National Air Traffic Service said it was now working with airlines and airports to manage affected flights following warnings that passengers could face delays of hours.
“We have identified and fixed the technical issue affecting our flight planning system this morning. We are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the affected flights as efficiently as possible,” NATS said in a statement issued at 3 a.m. :15pm London time. .
“Our engineers will carefully monitor system performance as we return to normal operations,” he added.
NATS did not provide further details about the cause of the problem or what flight restrictions were still in place.
Following the announcement that the problem had been fixed, a spokesman for London’s Heathrow airport said flight schedules will continue to be “significantly altered” for the rest of the day and urged passengers to travel to the airport only if it is confirmed that their flight is still running.
British Airways said its schedule had been “severely disrupted” by the disruption, noting that many flights, particularly short-haul ones, might not operate on Monday.
Holiday travel disruption
The update follows earlier announcements by NATS, in which it said that a technical glitch had disrupted its ability to automatically process flight plans and that air traffic control was being handled manually.
“We are currently experiencing a technical issue and have placed restrictions on traffic flow to maintain safety,” NATS said in a statement. statement issued at 12:10 p.m. “Engineers are working to find and fix the fault.”
In an update posted at 2:20 p.m., NATS said the glitch remained unresolved and air traffic control was being handled manually for the time being.
“This morning’s technical issue is affecting our ability to automatically process flight plans. Until our engineers have resolved this, flight plans are entered manually, which means we can’t process them at the same volume, so we’ve applied restrictions to the flow of traffic,” he said. .
NATS first announced the outage at 12:10 p.m., clarifying that “UK airspace is not closed” following reports on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.
The problem with air traffic control was previously announced by the Scottish airline Loganair, what did he say in X that there was a “network failure in the UK’s air traffic control computer systems this morning”.
Passengers were warned that they could experience serious delays. It comes during the UK’s busy holiday travel period, with many people returning from the summer holidays.
Flight tracking website Flightradar24 shared an X image of live air traffic data at 12:35pm London time.
In an accompanying statement, he said UK airports, including Heathrow, appear to be “significantly limiting departures” though arrivals continue. He added that all of his most followed flights are currently London arrivals.
Gatwick Airport, London’s second largest airport, saying on Monday afternoon that he was “seeing delays, and [flight] cancellations”, while Luton Airport said the air traffic control problem was “affecting UK airspace, causing flight disruptions”.
Meanwhile, Stansted Airport saying he was “aware of a nationwide air traffic control issue that is affecting flights in and out of airports across the country.”
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