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A bank holiday Monday to remember – for all the wrong reasons

The Man Who Pays His Way: Airlines are responsible for caring for passengers

The Independent UK

Harper to meet aviation chiefs after air traffic control disruption

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he wants to ensure everything possible is being done to get passengers home quickly.

The Independent UK

Harper to meet aviation bosses following air traffic control failure

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he wanted to make sure stranded passengers could get home as quickly as possible.

The Independent UK

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EasyJet boss calls for independent review into air traffic control failure

Chief executive Johan Lundgren said the incident ‘must not happen again’.

The Independent UK

Stranded holidaymakers waiting days to get home as flights are full

Airline websites show most flights to the UK from popular destinations are sold out until the weekend.

The Independent UK

Airlines call for compensation reform after ‘staggering’ air chaos revelation

Industry expects to lose £100m over the air traffic control failure and wants Nats to contribute

The Guardian - UK

Simon Calder issues advice on flight cancellations and compensation as air traffic chaos continues

Simon Calder tackled a wide range of your questions - from what you can be compensated for, how you can claim and what to do if you’re stranded and your flight is cancelled

The Independent UK

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OPINION - How ‘old digital’ fuelled air traffic control data chaos: The Leader podcast

Britain’s air traffic control data meltdown has left thousands of Britons marooned in foreign airports.

Evening Standard

UK air traffic control failure: what caused it, and who will have to pay?

We look at what lies behind hundreds of thousands of people having their flights cancelled or delayed

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re £1,000 out of pocket’: travellers affected by UK air traffic chaos

As fallout from the tech meltdown continues, we hear from some of those who have been left stranded

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - How ‘unreliable’ flight data put NATS into manual mode: Tech and Science Daily podcast

The boss of National Air Traffic Services - also known as Nats - has confirmed that 'unreliable' flight data is responsible for the ongoing widespread travel disruption.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Airport chaos: ‘We’re now a laughing stock around the world’

Our critical systems need to be fit-for-purpose as consumer demand to fly is predicted to rise sharply over the next 20 years, says Paul Charles

Evening Standard

An ‘unusual piece of data’ caused flight chaos – air traffic control boss

Many UK holidaymakers are stranded overseas after around 2,000 flights were cancelled because of the issue.

The Independent UK

UK air traffic chaos: easyJet lays on flights for stranded customers

Failure blamed on ‘dodgy’ flight plan by unnamed carrier could cost airlines £100m

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The Independent UK

More British Airways flights cancelled as airlines struggle to clear backlog from air traffic chaos

British Airways has cancelled a further 34 domestic and European flights to and from London Heathrow

The Independent UK

Incorrect data hitting air traffic control ‘demonstrates huge weakness’ – Walsh

The director-general of global airline body the International Air Transport Association described the failure as ‘staggering’.

The Independent UK

Air traffic boss reveals how flight chaos unfolded inside control room

Exclusive: ‘The problem was significantly different from anything we had seen before’ – Martin Rolfe

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak says airlines must help stranded passengers after ‘dodgy flight plan’ caused meltdown – as it happened

Rolling live news coverage of business, economics and financial markets as disruption to UK air travel continues into third day

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The Independent UK

Air traffic control failure blamed on ‘flight data’

Nats chief executive Martin Rolfe said initial investigations show the fault relates to ‘flight data we received’.

The Independent UK

Airlines demand compensation reform as air traffic control chaos sees 2,000 flights cancelled – latest

There were 1,585 flights cancelled on Monday, while 345 were axed on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Repatriation flights to set off for Gatwick after air traffic control fault

The failure, which led to a spate of cancellations and delays, was caused by flight data received by National Air Traffic Services.

Evening Standard

Data received by air traffic services ‘caused major flight disruptions’

There are no indications the failure was caused by a cyber-attack, according to National Air Traffic Services (Nats)

The Independent UK

Flight data received by air traffic services ’caused air traffic control fault’

There are no indications that the failure was caused by a cyber-attack, according to National Air Traffic Services (Nats).

The Independent UK

More travel chaos after 300,000 hit by cancellations – and French error blamed for air traffic mayhem

Inquiry launched into whether faulty flight plan triggered outage – as disruption set to continue

Fortune

'Technical glitch' sparks crippling delays for major U.K. airlines—and it could take 'days' before it’s resolved

More than a quarter of all flights coming into and leaving the U.K. were canceled on Monday.

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