{"id":304340,"date":"2025-07-30T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304340\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:26:19","slug":"uk-flights-briefly-disrupted-after-air-traffic-control-technical-issue-aviation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304340\/","title":{"rendered":"UK flights briefly disrupted after air traffic control \u2018technical issue\u2019 | Aviation News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Flights across the United Kingdom have been briefly disrupted as the country\u2019s air traffic control authority reported a \u201ctechnical issue\u201d, but later said the glitch had been resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The National Air Traffic Service, or NATS, said in a statement on Wednesday that departures at all airports have resumed and that teams are working with affected airlines and airports to \u201cclear the backlog safely\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOur systems are fully operational and air traffic capacity is returning to normal,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, NATS said\u00a0engineers were in the process of \u201cresuming normal operations in the London area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s Heathrow Airport had said flights were not departing, while Edinburgh Airport said the issue was affecting all departing flights.<\/p>\n<p>More soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Flights across the United Kingdom have been briefly disrupted as the country\u2019s air traffic control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1306,748,393,299,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-304340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114943124029069228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304340","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=304340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}