{"id":613949,"date":"2025-12-05T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:19:19","slug":"flights-delayed-and-cancelled-at-edinburgh-airport-after-it-issue-affected-air-traffic-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613949\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights delayed and cancelled at Edinburgh Airport after IT issue affected air traffic control"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All flights were halted at Edinburgh Airport this morning due to an IT issue with air traffic control.<\/p>\n

The airport announced all flights from the Scottish hub have now resumed, but many passengers may still face delays and cancellations<\/a> throughout Friday.<\/p>\n

According to the airport\u2019s live departure and arrival boards, one flight from Manchester was diverted, about 12 flights were cancelled, and 20 flights were facing delays<\/a>, with some by more than two hours.<\/p>\n

Flights to London Gatwick, Bristol, Amsterdam and Frankfurt have been cancelled. Others, including flights to London and Dublin, have been delayed.<\/p>\n

Some passengers have reported being stuck in planes on the runway on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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According to the airport\u2019s live departure and arrival boards, many flights were either diverted or cancelled (Getty\/iStock)<\/p>\n

Passengers said they were \u201cgutted and stressed\u201d when they heard their flights had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

Morven McCall and Cody Stevenson, both 19, told Sky News they were due to travel to Amsterdam on their first holiday together. But when they arrived at the airport, there was an announcement that their flight had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was ill over the summer and had to cancel two holidays already. This was our first time going away together,\u201d Morven said. <\/p>\n

Another passenger said they were told the airfield was closed due to air traffic control halfway through boarding their flight. <\/p>\n

The airport explained on social media platform X that the outage was a localised issue, and advised customers to contact their airline for information about their flight.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Edinburgh Airport said: \u201cFlights at Edinburgh Airport have now resumed following the IT issue with ANS, our air traffic control provider. We thank passengers for their patience and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The issue was due to an IT problem at air traffic control (PA)<\/p>\n

The resumption of flights comes after an earlier announcement that all flights had been halted, which read: \u201cNo flights are currently operating from Edinburgh Airport.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeams are working on the issue and will resolve as soon as possible. We will provide updates when possible \u2013 please contact your airline for the latest information on your flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is understood that the issue was not linked to the earlier Cloudflare outage<\/a>. Visitors to a number of pages saw a \u201c500 internet server error\u201d warning, rather than the content they expected, on sites including X, Substack, Canva and Down Detector.<\/p>\n

The airport is the sixth-busiest in the UK, and the busiest in Scotland. It was used by 15.8 million passengers last year.<\/p>\n

Nats, which manages most of the UK\u2019s airspace, said during the outage it would \u201cwork closely with the airlines impacted and support as best we can\u201d.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Air Navigation Solutions, which is responsible for air traffic control at the airport, said: \u201cThis morning, a technical issue affected one of our systems at Edinburgh Airport, and it impacted flight operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur technical capability has now been reinstated, and flights have since resumed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafety is our number one priority, and our engineers worked at pace to restore system capability as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regret the inconvenience that this is causing and thank everyone for their patience.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not yet known exactly how many passengers were affected by the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-613949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613949","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=613949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}