British Airways cancels some Thursday flights to and from Heathrow while Ryanair demands resignation of Nats CEO ...

On Wednesday at around 2:30pm, systems went down at the Swanwick air traffic control centre responsible for all “en route” upper-level control over England and Wales. Controllers were unable to see ...

Britain’s transport chief has summoned the head of the country’s air traffic control operator to explain the problem that ...

A nationwide air traffic control outage caused widespread flight cancellations and delays across the UK, sparking calls for ...

UK air traffic meltdown 'one in 15 million' event, NATS says An air traffic meltdown in Britain was caused by a "one in 15 million" event, the boss of traffic control provider NATS said, as ...

Heidi Alexander said that she will meet with Martin Rolfe to ‘understand what happened and how we can prevent reoccurrence’.

Nats chief executive Martin Rolfe was summoned to meet Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander on Thursday morning.

Nats made headlines in 2023 when a flight planning system meltdown meant flight plans had to be sorted manually, causing major delays and cancellations as only 60 flight plans could be processed per ...