The Latest Breaking News on Aviation chaos continues as French air-traffic controllers strike again

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

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

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

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

Tom Perry said his flight from Crete had been cancelled about an hour before he planned to leave for the airport.

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

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

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

The summer of 2023 started well for airlines, after a tumultuous few years following COVID lockdowns in most countries. Passenger numbers were up 30% in the northern hemisphere in June 2023, versus the previous year. But air travel in July and August has been disrupted once again, not only by…