Nearly 1,100 flights cancelled after UK air traffic control glitch

LONDON: Almost 1,100 flights to and from UK airports were cancelled Tuesday due to what the country’s air traffic control service called a technical issue, in the latest glitch to spark travel chaos.

A total of 1,055 flights to and from British airports had been axed by 8:00 pm (1900 GMT), according to the aircraft tracking website FlightRadar24. “Recovery from today’s system issue has taken longer than we had hoped,” Britain’s air traffic control service, known as NATS, said on X early evening.