LONDON LOCKDOWN AIRPORT UPDATE

Gatwick Airport, London's second-largest airport, said Monday afternoon that it was 'seeing delays, and cancellations,' while Luton Airport said the air traffic control issue was 'affecting UK airspace, resulting in disruption to flights.' It added that all of its most tracked flights are currently London arrivals. airports, including Heathrow, appear to be 'significantly limiting departures,' although arrivals continue. In an accompanying statement, it said that U.K. It comes during the U.K.'s busy bank holiday travel period, with many people returning from summer holidays.įlight tracking website Flightradar24 shared an image on X of live air traffic data at 12:35 p.m. Passengers were warned that they could face severe delays. The issue with air traffic control was announced earlier by Scottish airline Loganair, which said on X that there was a 'network-wide failure of UK air traffic control computer systems this morning.' and clarified that 'UK airspace is not closed' following reports on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. NATS first announced the disruption at 12.10 p.m.

Until our engineers have resolved this, flight plans are being input manually which means we cannot process them at the same volume, hence we have applied traffic flow restrictions,' it said. 'This morning's technical issue is affecting our ability to automatically process flight plans.

LONDON LOCKDOWN AIRPORT UPDATE

In an update issued at 2.20 p.m., NATS said that the fault remained unresolved and that air traffic control was being handled manually for the time being. 'Engineers are working to find and fix the fault.' 'We are currently experiencing a technical issue and have applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety,' NATS said in a statement issued at 12.10 p.m. The update follows earlier announcements from NATS, in which it said that a technical fault had disrupted its ability to automatically process flight plans and that air traffic control was instead being handled manually.

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