‘Everyone’s had their holidays ruined’: outrage after UK airport chaos

The UK's independent aerospace regulator has been instructed to review an air traffic control system outage on Tuesday.

‘Everyone's had their holidays ruined’: outrage after UK airport chaos

British transport minister Heidi Alexander has instructed the UK’s independent aerospace regulator to conduct an independent review into the cause of an air traffic control system outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations on Tuesday.

Published On 9 Sep 2026

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