As airlines struggle to recover from the four-hour failure of the main air-traffic control system across the UK on Monday, airlines are making dozens more cancellations.
Aircraft and flight crew are out of position after the severe disruption on bank holiday Monday.
More than 1,200 flights to, from and within the UK were grounded by the failure at Nats, the national air-traffic provider. Around 200,000 people are starting the day where they did not wish to be – with many sleeping overnight at airports.
Flight cancellations are continuing. Britain’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, has grounded more than 80 flights on Tuesday. Three dozen are at Gatwick, including flights serving holiday destinations such as Athens and Venice.
In Scotland, Edinburgh is hard hit with 22 easyJet cancellations, including long flights to Rhodes and Tenerife. At Manchester, easyJet has grounded 14 flights.
The airline has also cancelled flights from Luton to and from Amsterdam, Malaga and Murcia.
A spokesperson for easyJet said:
“Due to the UK Air Traffic Control systems failure yesterday causing disruption to flights to and from the UK, some flights this morning have been unable to operate due to aircraft being out of base and yesterday’s delays having an impact on crew rest requirements.”
British Airways has grounded more than 60 flights on Tuesday. Most are short-haul departures from London Heathrow, including Athens, Ibiza and Pisa. But transatlantic flights are also affected, with the Heathrow-Nashville and Gatwick-Tampa cancelled.
From Gatwick, one BA flight to and from each of Nice and Palma is grounded.
The airline’s “middle seat empty” policy for Club Europe passengers is being suspended on Tuesday in order to try to fill every plane. Normally business-class passengers expect an empty seat next to them.
Travellers with bookings on British Airways short-haul flights on Tuesday are being offered the option to switch to future dates, in order to ease the pressure on getting people where they need to be.
Delayed British Airways flights from Geneva, Istanbul and Paris arrived after midnight at London Heathrow, which normally has its last arrivals of the day before 11pm.
Other airlines are affected at Heathrow. Aer Lingus and Lufthansa have cancelled their first services to Dublin and Munich respectively due to the inbound flights being…
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