Air traffic glitch fuels flight chaos in Britain
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Scores of flights were delayed or canceled at Britain’s busiest airports yesterday because of a technical problem at a main air traffic control center.
National Air Traffic Service, which controls the crowded airspace over England, said it was having a problem switching between nighttime and busier daytime operations at its control center in Swanwick, southern England.
Spokeswoman Juliet Kennedy said the glitch was preventing staff opening new control positions to deal with busier daytime traffic, meaning the service was struggling to handle the volume of flights. “At the moment we don’t know when we will be able to rectify the problem.”
Heathrow Airport — Europe’s busiest — had delays of an hour or more on many morning departures, and canceled several dozen short-haul flights to destinations such as Nice, France.
London’s Stansted Airport said departing flights were delayed by up to two hours.
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