Airlines battle to recover after fault

AIRLINES are attempting to recover their flight operations after an air traffic control (ATC) fault caused major disruption yesterday afternoon.

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Thousands of passengers have been affected, with many likely to continue facing issues with their journeys.

ATC provider Nats said last night its engineers had “restored the system that was affected” and it is “in the process of resuming normal operations”.

The technical glitch affected flights across the UK as the number of aircraft that could fly in England and Wales was restricted, the company said.

It has left many aircraft and flight crew out of position.

Ryanair called for Nats’ chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign in the wake of the fault, claiming “no lessons have been learnt” since the August 2023 system outage.