Travellers in the UK face ongoing disruption after a technical glitch in the country’s air traffic control service. Multiple outlets report that more than 150 flights are cancelled, and at least 177 scheduled flights are scrapped for Wednesday. Passengers at major hubs continue to experience long delays and cancellations as airlines and the air traffic system recover.
Authorities and service providers work to restore normal operations. France 24 reports that flights begin to resume on Wednesday after earlier disruption left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded, while other reporting highlights the scale of the problem, including cancellations the day before and additional impacts on the day of the outage. Flight tracking data cited by South China Morning Post indicates that Heathrow is among the most affected airports, with nearly all later impacted flights tied to London’s busiest aviation hub.
Across the coverage, the focus is on the same core event: a UK air traffic control technical fault leads to widespread cancellations and delays, with recovery taking place over successive days and uneven across airports.
