et2 demands urgent action on UK air traffic control resilience after a NATS Prestwick issue causes disruption, with the airline seeking to recover costs.
Flights were delayed or cancelled across several airports in the UK on Monday, Sept. 21. Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast all reported delays and cancellations after an air traffic control disruption. The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) stated that anything south of Manchester would be “broadly unaffected,” although London City reported some delays. A ‘connectivity […]
Travel Radar•Emilia Birch21 SeptAviationNews – A network connectivity failure at the NATS air traffic control centre in Prestwick triggered fresh flight cancellations and widespread delays across Scotland, Northern...
Irish budget carrier Ryanair has called on NATS CEO Martin Rolfe to resign following the latest issue, which has impacted flights across the UK and Ireland.
Euronews21 Sept
Flights across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England were disrupted on Monday after National Air Traffic Services (NATS) experienced a technical problem at its Prestwick Centre in Scotland. The issue forced NATS to introduce air traffic restrictions, affecting airports including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Belfast. NATS said the problem was resolved at around 10:30 BST […]
Aviation24.be•Bart Noëth21 Sept
LONDON - "Connectivity issue": Another NATS hick-up causes travel disruptions at northern UK airports. Several flights had to be cancelled or delayed Monday. The new problem had its roots in the Prestwick ATC centre.
aero.uk21 Sept
The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) center in Prestwick, Scotland, has been struck by a “technical issue” resulting…
AeroTime•Ian Molyneaux21 Sept
The issue is more regionalized, with mainly Scottish and Northern Irish airports affected.
A passenger attempting to travel to Aberdeen from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) on Tuesday, Sept. 8 became a “human megaphone” during the unfolding chaos caused by a National Air Traffic Services (NATS) technical issue. Cyber security expert, Kurtis Toy, helped “overwhelmed” easyJet staff to relay information to the large crowd of confused passengers. NATS system […]
Travel Radar•Kate Angel19 Sept
A previously unknown software defect with an exposure window of just around one millisecond was responsible for the major National Airspace System failure that caused widespread disruption across UK aviation on 8 September, according to a preliminary investigation by NATS. The report, published on 16th of September, reveals how a [read more]
UK Aviation News•Nick Harding18 Sept
Reports are emerging that the air traffic control (ATC) issue that grounded thousands of flights departing or arriving in the UK last week was caused by a military aircraft. The incident affected close to 300,000 passengers and is the largest technical failure of the UK’s ATC system, NATS, since the 2023 outage. The Ministry of […]
Travel Radar•Olivia Jarvis16 Sept
Jet2 says around 7,200 passengers required repatriation support following last week's NATS technical disruption, with the airline operating more than a dozen additional flights to bring customers back to the UK.
Anomalous flight-plan data preceded the NATS failure that caused widespread disruption across Britain
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier12 Sept
Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report says The air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlier in the week was caused by a military aircraft entering “spurious” flight data into the system, according to a report. Hundreds of thousands of passengers were affected after more than 2,000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday when the system used by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) shut down for four hours. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Guardian Staff11 Sept
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the more we learn about last Sunday’s fatal runway overrun in Miami , the more confusing the circumstances become. We break down what we know from the ADS-B data and the limited flight data recorder information released by the NTSB thus far. A computer failure at NATS leads to the cancellation of 1500 flights over two days in the UK, while Anak Krakatau’s eruption halts flights in Jakarta. One of only two active DC-8s suffers a runway overrun and gear collapse in Kinshasa. We learn about Honeywell’s Mag Mav, Italian passengers and the danger of steep stairs, and the Swiss transport museum needs to figure out where its going to put a retired A340. And United’s planned 9/11 flypast in Denver is getting push back. (Ed. note: the flypast was canceled after recording of this episode) Check back soon for a transcript of this week’s episode.
Flightradar24 Blog•Flightradar2411 Sept
The technical issue that occurred with the UK’s air traffic control system operated by National Air Traffic Services (NATS) on Tuesday Sept. 8 has caused chaos for tenss of thousands of passengers at numerous large aviation hubs over the past few days. With the impacts of the fault causing rippling effects days later, here is […]
Travel Radar•Melissa Thomas10 Sept
The Chief Executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), the UK’s largest controller of air traffic, has been summoned to meet the country’s Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander. This follows a complete shutdown of NATS’ systems Tuesday Sept. 8, which saw nearly 2,000 flights cancelled. Airline bosses, including Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary have called on NATS’ […]
Travel Radar•Billy Stack10 Sept
Disruptions continued at airports across the United Kingdom on Wednesday, 9 September, after NATS’ flight-processing system failed a day earlier. Although the technical problem has been resolved and air traffic services are operating normally, airlines are still repositioning aircraft and crews. According to aviation analytics company Cirium, more than 2,000 flights were cancelled or failed to […]
Aviation24.be•André Orban9 Sept
The latest NATS failure continues to impact UK aviation just as airlines are looking for a strong finish to the Summer season, and is likely to cost millions in flight delay compensation as they are held liable for passenger-related costs.
LONDON - UK air travel disruptions following a technical glitch at air traffic control provider NATS continued Wednesday with hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed. Nearly 250 flights had been cancelled by early morning hours, according to flight tracking website "Flightradar24", most at London Heathrow.
aero.uk9 Sept