British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand
The UK's National Air Traffic Service is spending a bank holiday Monday dealing with an unspecified"technical issue" that has disrupted flights across the country.in a statement today that at 1210 UK time it"applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety." Half an hour later the an update was posted to clarify that UK airspace wasn't closed and the issue was still being investigated.
Two hours into the outage, NATS posted an update to say that the issue was related to its ability to process flight plans, requiring officials to process each plan manually. "Until our engineers have resolved this, flight plans are being input manually which means we cannot process them at the same volume, hence we have applied traffic flow restrictions," NATS said."Our priority is ensuring every flight in the UK remains safe and doing everything we can to minimise the impact."
At 1515 the organization said that it had"identified and remedied" the technical issue and that normal operations were restarting, albeit under the careful watch of its engineers. Having to file flight plans by hand had caused significant delays but the body is working to clear the backlog.
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