Travelers have been warned that the chaos brought about by a UK air traffic control failure earlier this week will continue for days.
During an interview on Tuesday, Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary for the UK acknowledged that the “technical issue,” which lasted for several hours, had impacted thousands of passengers and would last for “some days.”
“Lots of flights were canceled and it is going to take some days to get people back to where they should be,” Harper told the BBC.
The news comes as passengers headed to or from the UK faced “significant delays,” or flight cancellations after Britain’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) flight planning system experienced a “network-wide failure.”
The fault came on the last day of a summer public holiday weekend in the UK, meaning many vacationers would be affected.
Credit: cnn.com
