UK NATS boss has confidence of govt, Downing Street says
- On Wednesday, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will meet Nats CEO Martin Rolfe following widespread flight cancellations caused by a technical issue on Tuesday affecting thousands of passengers across UK airports.
- Nats provides air traffic control services to 15 UK airports from Swanwick and Whiteley; a system malfunction on Tuesday resulted in the cancellation of 1,300 flights to and from UK airports.
- Ryanair chief operating officer Neal McMahon called for Rolfe to resign, citing "repeated mismanagement," while British Airways cancelled or diverted more than 100 flights on Tuesday, impacting "tens of thousands of customers."
- Rolfe apologized for the disruption but avoided questions regarding his resignation, stating "Inevitably, things do go wrong in complex systems" while defending the UK's air traffic control reputation on Wednesday.
- Transport Secretary Alexander will address MPs in the Commons today regarding the Civil Aviation Bill, while Rolfe promised a "thorough" investigation and ruled out a cyber attack as the cause.
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Flight disruption expected to ease as air traffic boss faces calls to resign
Hundreds of thousands of passengers were caught up in the disruption after flights were cancelled following a Nats technical issue on Tuesday. Flight disruption that caused chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers is expected to ease on Thursday. Technical issues with air traffic control systems have caused more than 2,000 flights arriving or departing...
For more than 24 hours, a huge technical breakdown has paralyzed all air traffic in Britain. More than 2,000 flights have been cancelled with repercussions throughout Europe. Passengers have slept in luggage bins converted into makeshift mattresses. In three years, this is the third massive crisis of the air system in the country. Faced with these repeated problems, some airlines call for the resignation of the boss of NATS, British air traffic …
UK summons air traffic boss after major outage
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