Investing.com - Britain's air traffic is experiencing major problems due to technical issues with their controlling software. National Air Traffic Services (NATS) made a statement regarding the issue on their website;
This morning’s technical issue is affecting our ability to automatically process flight plans. 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. Our technical experts are looking at all possible solutions to rectify this as quickly as possible.
Due to the issue, many flights departing from England were cancelled; many British tourists were stranded in many different countries since flights carrying those returning to their countries from holiday regions were not allowed to take off. Jet2, Ryanair and EasyJet are heavily affected by this situation.
Jet2 shared on their official X account that many flights of the airline were delayed due to a technical problem, and that passengers should follow the Jet2 web page for up-to-date information.
It is currently unclear exactly when the problem will be solved.
According to Flightradar24's airport disruption index, 67% of the flights from the London City Airport was delayed, while at the London Gatwick the delayed flights was at 59% of all daily flights on 28th August, 2023.
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