August 28, (THEWILL) – Britain’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS), said it was experiencing “technical issues”, which have impacted flights across the country.
“We are currently experiencing a technical issue and have applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety. Engineers are working to find and fix the fault.
“We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause”, NATS said in a statement on Monday.
Additionally, international passengers on airlines outside of the UK have reportedly been told that the air traffic control network is down and their flights will be delayed.
“There has been a network-wide failure of UK air traffic control computer systems this morning.
“Although we are hopeful of being able to operate most intra-Scotland flights on the basis of local coordination and with a minimum of disruption, north-south and international flights may be subject to delays”, Scottish airline Loganair posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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