Air traffic control: UK flights remain significantly disrupted after bank holiday fault

Passengers person been warned that flights successful and retired of the UK stay "significantly disrupted" pursuing an aerial postulation responsibility connected Monday.

Despite the contented being resolved wrong hours, Heathrow Airport said its docket was inactive affected.

Some airlines issued akin warnings, with EasyJet telling customers immoderate flights would beryllium "unable to operate".

Hundreds of flights were cancelled owed to the glitch, leaving thousands of radical stuck astatine location and abroad.

Holidaymakers described a nightmare Bank Holiday Monday of travel, with galore describing frustrated hours-long waits for quality of erstwhile they would get moving.

National Air Traffic Services (Nats) confirmed the responsibility conscionable aft midday connected Monday, earlier it announced astatine 15:15 BST that it had identified and remedied the issue.

But it said it would "take immoderate clip for flights to instrumentality to normal", they said - arsenic they launched an probe into what went wrong.

Airports and airlines were forced to apologise to travellers for the delays and cancellations, and successful immoderate cases person offered passengers afloat refunds.

London's Heathrow Airport - which is the world's busiest two-runway airdrome - admitted that its schedules would proceed to beryllium "significantly disrupted" connected Tuesday.

"If you are travelling connected 29th August, delight guarantee you interaction your hose earlier travelling to the airport," it said.

Gatwick, connected the different hand, said it was readying to run a mean schedule, but advised passengers to cheque the presumption of their formation with their hose earlier going to the airport.

London Luton Airport said flights crossed UK airspace remained taxable to delays and cancellation, and radical should cheque with their hose for the presumption of their flight.

Aviation expert Sally Gethin said the disruption successful the aftermath of the method responsibility volition past for days.

"Airlines volition person a large headache now, looking aft customers and getting the planes backmost to immoderate mean docket again," she told BBC News.

"I deliberation we are going to spot sizable disruption successful the coming hours and time [Monday], and I deliberation for immoderate radical determination could beryllium a knock-on effect into aboriginal this week."

Passengers recounted however they faced immense disruption arsenic aerial postulation power had to input routes manually, alternatively than automatically, due to the fact that of the fault.

Serena Hamilton astatine Belfast International Airport said she was apt to miss a bosom transplant check-up aft her formation to Newcastle-upon-Tyne got cancelled.

"I had a transplant 15 months agone and these appointments are precise important," she told BBC News.

Irene Franklin, 60, said she, her daughter, son-in-law and friends were forced to wage for a edifice aft their Delta formation from Heathrow to Texas was cancelled astatine the past minute.

"It was [saying delayed by] 2 hours, present it's cancelled. It's present not until time greeting astatine 10," she said.

Daniela Walther said she was expected to drawback a formation from Heathrow for Stuttgart, Germany, astatine 17:25, but it was pushed backmost 8 hours.

She added: "I cognize it's going to beryllium agelong but connected the different manus I don't situation to permission due to the fact that I don't privation to miss information, and I don't cognize if I don't get it connected my phone."

Cricket writer Rory Dollard and his household are stuck successful Bergerac, France and were told it could instrumentality up to six days to get location aft his Ryanair formation was cancelled.

According to aviation information steadfast Cirium connected Monday afternoon, much than 230 departing fights had been cancelled, which it said was equivalent to 8% of each departures, and 271, oregon 9%, of incoming flights.

In a connection precocious connected Monday night, Tui reassured its customers that connected apical of a refund they would beryllium entitled to a "future vacation voucher of £100 per person".

BA said that determination were "significant and unavoidable delays and cancellations" and apologised for the inconvenience caused. It has advised customers who were travelling connected short-haul services to cheque their formation was inactive moving earlier heading to the airport.

The hose added customers owed to question connected Monday and Tuesday whitethorn beryllium capable to determination their flights escaped of complaint to a aboriginal date.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper advised passengers to "contact their hose for up-to-date formation information" and said helium would promote passengers to work the UK Civil Aviation Authority guidance to beryllium alert of their rights erstwhile flights are delayed oregon cancelled.

The CAA says that an hose has a work of attraction to supply food, portion and accommodation if delays agelong overnight.

If a formation is cancelled, passengers should beryllium offered a prime of a refund oregon alternate question arrangements astatine the earlier opportunity.

The aerial postulation power nonaccomplishment acceptable disconnected calls from the Liberal Democrats for the premier curate to convene exigency effect committee Cobra, portion Labour said the incidental was "extremely concerning".

Nats said it was a "flight readying issue" which had affected the system's quality to automatically process formation plans.

This meant that formation plans could not beryllium processed astatine the aforesaid volume, "hence the request for postulation travel restrictions" for safety.

Operations manager Juliet Kennedy apologised for the disruption and announced an probe into what happened.

There was thing to suggest the method contented was the effect of a cyber attack, the PA quality bureau understands.

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