Airlines battle to recover operations after air traffic control glitch

Ryanair has called for Nats’ chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign in the wake of the fault, claiming 'no lessons have been learnt' since the August 2023 system outage.

A plane landing at Gatwick Airport. File picture

Airlines are attempting to recover their flight operations after an air traffic control (ATC) fault caused major disruption on Wednesday afternoon.

Thousands of passengers have been affected, with many likely to continue facing issues with their journeys.