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UK airports suspend flights due to major radar outage
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 30 – The National Air Traffic Service (NATS) system fault grounded thousands of outbound flights at major UK airports during peak travel, with operations restored within hours, officials said.
- NATS reported a technical issue at Swanwick control center, causing delays at London Heathrow, Gatwick, City, and Edinburgh airports.
- Amid a UK airspace issue affecting flights across the South East, NATS limited flights into the London control area after a technical problem on Wednesday.
- By 4.25pm, NATS engineers had restored the affected system and operations in the London area were returning to normal.
- NATS said it is working with airlines to clear the backlog, while British Airways reported a Heathrow flow rate limit of 32 flights per hour until 7:15 p.m.
- Following an earlier radar failure, London airspace was temporarily closed, and NATS is restoring operations, with ongoing delays, after the system was affected this afternoon.
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A radar-related glitch at NATS’ Swanwick control centre halted new arrivals into UK airspace on Wednesday, grounding departures at major hubs including Heathrow and Gatwick. More than 80 flights were cancelled by evening, with British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet heavily affected. The outage lasted just 20 minutes, but its aftermath will take days to resolve
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At least 16 flights, including those bound for Brussels and Toronto and those expected from New York and Berlin, were canceled today.
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