UK passengers face flight chaos amid second day of disruption after air traffic fault

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Holidaymakers have been hit by bank holiday travel delays, which started on Monday after a UK air traffic control failure meant flight plans had to be input manually by controllers

Latest air traffic control news as UK airports braced for more flight delays and cancellations after failure

People wait near the EasyJet check-in desks at Gatwick Airport as a fault with air traffic control systems grounded thousands of flights Travel disruption could last for days after flights were cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded following an air traffic control technical fault. Holidaymakers were hit by bank holiday travel delays, which started on Monday after a UK air traffic control failure meant flight plans had to be input manually by controllers.

By Monday afternoon, 232 flights departing UK airports had been cancelled and 271 arriving flights, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.

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