{"id":622764,"date":"2026-09-21T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622764\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:38:09","slug":"air-traffic-control-issue-causes-uk-flight-disruption-for-second-time-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622764\/","title":{"rendered":"Air traffic control issue causes UK flight disruption for second time this month"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second Nats issue this month – here’s what happened last timepublished at 11:33 BST<\/p>\n

11:33 BST<\/p>\n

Flight delays set back travellers around the country earlier this month after an air traffic control failure caused by a “software defect”<\/a> prompted Nats’ system to produce corrupted data.<\/p>\n

The issue led to 2,000 cancelled flights at the UK’s main airports, with hundreds of thousands of passengers impacted. <\/p>\n

Questions are growing over the resilience of Nats’ systems, and Airlines UK, an industry body, has called for immediate compensation for costs incurred<\/p>\n

Separately, there are calls for Nats chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign – though he told the BBC last week that he won’t step aside, calling the software defect “very, very obscure.”<\/p>\n

“You can fly to almost anywhere from almost any airport at almost any time. If that stops, even for a moment, then you get huge disruption.”<\/p>\n

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander called the widespread disruption “completely unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a computer shutdown over the August bank holiday weekend caused chaos for 700,000 passengers.<\/p>\n

There was another, smaller Nats outage in 2025, which caused 150 cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second Nats issue this month – here’s what happened last timepublished at 11:33 BST 11:33…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-622764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}