{"id":1193678,"date":"2026-09-08T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193678\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:46:23","slug":"bristol-airport-delays-sparked-by-air-traffic-control-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193678\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Airport delays sparked by air traffic control fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were due to board at 17:00 BST but nobody turned up at the gate to let us through,&#8221; Robertson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My husband who is in the UK texted to tell me that there was an issue with air traffic control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So far we have been told we would be delayed for two hours hours, then six hours &#8211; my parents are 90 and 88.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Jacobson, 50, said her daughter was due to fly from Bristol to Faro at 13:30, but had been grounded for more than five hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others took to social media to report being stuck overseas, including in Crete and Venice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its initial statement, Bristol Airport said the issue was only impacting departures, before clarifying arrivals were also being delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We recommend passengers travelling today to contact their airline directly to check the latest flight information and prior to leaving for the airport,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Nats said: &#8220;We have identified that the issue was in our flight processing system. Our engineers are on site and working urgently to resume normal operations as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Flights are still departing and airspace is open, but recovery will take some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We were due to board at 17:00 BST but nobody turned up at the gate to let us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1193678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117236910450772511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}