Air passengers experience severe delays after technical failure in UK air traffic control

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Air passengers experience severe delays after technical failure in UK air traffic control
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Passengers have been told to expect 'significant delays' as air traffic controllers across the UK are experiencing a technical fault.

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She posted on X, formerly known as Twitter:"On a plane on the runway at Budapest airport. After almost three weeks away from home I am hours from hugging my family. "We're on the tarmac in Palma, Majorca - we got on the plane an hour ago and shortly after we got on the plane, the pilot made an announcement to say it doesn't look like we'll be leaving for a while because there are issues with air traffic control across the whole of the UK.

"One of the problems here is that because there were terrible storms in Majorca, loads of flights were already cancelled and delayed," she added. Loganair posted on X:"There has been a network-wide failure of UK air traffic control computer systems this morning.

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