A connectivity issue at National Air Traffic Services’ Prestwick centre disrupted flights across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England on Monday. NATS said the system was fixed and operating at full capacity, but delays and cancellations continued as airlines and airports recovered. ✈️
The incident was the second major NATS technical problem in less than two weeks. NATS said it was unrelated to the 8 September outage, which the company later attributed to a software defect in a system used to identify flights on radar.
Aviation-data company Cirium counted 227 cancelled arrivals and departures by late afternoon, according to the Associated Press. Manchester, Belfast International, Edinburgh and George Best Belfast City were among the airports most affected.
Airlines including Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways renewed calls for action on the resilience of NATS systems. The cause of Monday’s connectivity problem had not been established in the retrieved reporting. ⚠️