Air traffic control meltdown

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( August 29, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 /[Thousands stranded as 1,200 flights cancelled on bank holiday Monday]( Thousands of travellers have been left stranded and more than 200,000 affected by delays and cancellations [after a major outage]( hit Britain’s [air traffic control]( system, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,200 flights at the end of the bank holiday weekend. A “network-wide” failure left controllers having to enter flight details manually, leading to colossal delays and many passengers being stuck on grounded planes for hours on end. Air traffic service [Nats]( said it had “identified and remedied” the fault. But [holidaymakers]( – many of whom were returning from holidays and due to return to work on Tuesday – were braced for the chaos to continue as airlines struggle to clear the backlog. In the worst single day’s disruption to UK flying since the Icelandic volcano in 2010, an estimated 200,000 passengers were expected to wake up up on Tuesday morning where they did not intend to be. And while affected passengers may be able to claim for hotel or meal expenses from their airline, they [will not be entitled to statutory compensation]( as the situation is described as an “extraordinary circumstance”.   2 /[‘Just a gimmick’: Suella Braverman criticised over plans to tag migrants]( Home Office officials are mulling ankle tags as a way to prevent migrants who cannot be housed in limited detention sites from absconding 3 /[Notting Hill Carnival climaxes with joyful celebrations]( People were partying atop floats followed by feathered mas bands as the smell of jerk chicken filled the air /[Edinburgh Festival organisers celebrate success of ‘vital’ Fringe]( Performers and audiences from around the world flocked to Edinburgh for the event 5 /[Hundreds of passengers have to fly home early after cruise liner collision]( The P&O cruise ship MV Britannia collided with another vessel during severe weather in Palma de Mallorca THE BIG QUESTION [Caught in the air-traffic control nightmare? Your rights when flights go wrong]( Hundreds of thousands of [passengers]( booked to travel to or from the [UK]( have had their flights cancelled or delayed after the [air-traffic control system]( was [hit by a technical issue](. The National Air Traffic Services (NATS), the country’s leading provider of air traffic control services, said it had applied traffic flow restrictions on Monday to maintain safety. The group announced later that the issue had been “identified and remedied”. But passengers are still facing [travel chaos](, with more than 500 flights already cancelled and many more delayed. The Independent’s travel expert Simon Calder explains what you can do if you are caught up in the chaos. 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