A quarter of a million people saw their flights get cancelled after an air traffic control system fault caused holiday chaos.
The disruption, which began on Bank Holiday Monday, was repaired but led to dozens of flights getting cancelled even today.But there is hope the disruption will start to ease up on Wednesday.
"At the moment, there's just planes strewn all over the place where they weren't expected to be, you've got issues with cabin crew and pilot rest, and that is causing a lot of the problems today."By cancelling so many flights, and we're up to about 80 on EasyJet, 60 on British Airways, 40 on Ryanair today, the idea is that you get everything back... press the reset button from Wednesday onwards, things can happen.
Juliet Kennedy, NATS' operations director, apologised to passengers but warned "it will take some time for flights to return to normal". Transport secretary Mark Harper told LBC that experts looked at the problem but had ruled out a cyber attack.Picture: Alamy Speaking at Glasgow Airport, they said they did not know when they could next go out to see friends there and would be unable to get time off due to work.
Neil Scott, from Newcastle, told LBC he could be stuck in Faro, Portugal, for a week after the air traffic control glitch.
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