Thousands of air passengers suffered travel disruption over the weekend after a software failure at an air traffic control centre in Swanwick on Saturday morning caused flight delays and cancellations across the UK.
The National Air Traffic Service (NATS) says normal service has resumed at all affected airports following the glitch, which was fixed by 19:30 on Saturday evening. It was also keen to point out that at no point was the failure a safety risk.
The technical problems related to NATS internal communications system, which has night time and day time configurations. During the night, when traffic is quieter, NATS combines sectors of airspace, while during the day, these sectors are split again.
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