Stranded passengers describe chaos after flight cancellations

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After a four-hour air traffic control outage, air travel in the UK was thrown into disarray. Across two days, more than 2,100 flights were affected, with Heathrow (and British Airways) being the worst-hit. The error seemed to occur in the flight-processing system of NATS, which runs air traffic management at 15 airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow and Manchester. It has led to some calling for the NATS chief, Martin Rolfe, to resign. Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-airports-latest-air-traffic-control-issue-causing-disruption-to-flight-departures-13579347 #airtravel #flights #nats #uk #skynews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https://podfollow.com/thisiswhy or Ed Conway's Stuff Matters, available here: https://podfollow.com/stuff-matters To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales

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