He added that he could miss covering three England matches, while his wife, who is a social worker, could face delays to “important cases”. “If you need to find a hotel for the next five/six nights, who’s paying for this? Is it Ryanair? Is it your insurer? Is it somebody else?” He said: “I’ve never been in a situation like this before and because of the language barrier, it’s hard to work out exactly who’s responsible for which part of the cost. He added that he was told it may take up to six days before he and his family - wife Joanne, 40, and children Emily, 10, and Arthur, eight - can return home to Skipton, North Yorkshire. Rory Dollard, 40, cricket correspondent at PA Media, said he and other passengers stuck at Bergerac Dordogne Perigord Airport have heard “absolutely nothing” about what caused the technical fault, which led to his Ryanair flight not taking off. British journalist faces being stuck in France for up to six daysĪ British journalist who faces being stuck in France for up to six days due to the technical issue affecting air traffic control systems said there is uncertainty over who will pay for the extended stay. His easyJet flight from Gatwick to Ancona was cancelled and he had to book with TUI to Verona on Wednesday morning instead. Londoner Julian Eccles has lost half of his four-day trip to central Italy and Lake Garda. Vueling, Wizz Air, Ryanair, Norwegian and TAP Portugal also cancelled flights. The Independent has identified more than 200 cancellations on easyJet alone, including many longer flights to destinations including Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus.īritish Airways has grounded around 30 flights to and from Gatwick, including multiple flights to the Canary Islands and Turkey. 50,000 passengers hit by Gatwick cancellations alone - Simon CalderĪt least 300 flights have been cancelled to and from the UK’s second-busiest airport, London Gatwick, as a result of Monday’s air-traffic control failure. The Independent has calculated the figures using information from the aviation data service Flightradar24. On one of the busiest days of the year for travellers, the UK air-traffic control system failed for several hours – grounding more than 1,200 flights, and delaying thousands more. In the worst single day’s disruption to UK flying since the Icelandic volcano in 2010, an estimated 200,000 passengers will be waking up on Tuesday morning where they did not intend to be, Simon Calder writes. As one million passengers booked onto UK flights todayīank holiday flight cancellations top 1,200 – with 200,000 passengers stranded Technical issue ‘identified and remedied’, National Air Traffic Services says

Have you been affected by delays? If so email Key PointsĪir traffic control failure causes chaos at UK airports Around one million passengers had been due to fly to and from the UK on the Monday bank holiday, figures suggests – with many facing delays of up to 12 hours.

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