As many as 10,000 Heathrow passengers were affected last week's…
As many as 10,000 passengers at Heathrow were affected by the cancellations caused by last week’s air traffic control computer failure, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has told MPs.
He said that the failure, at the Hampshire headquarters of air traffic control company Nats, caused 16,000 minutes of delays.
This compared with 126,000 minutes of delays when there was a computer glitch at the Swanwick centre in December last year.
Although Mr McLoughlin repeated his earlier statement that…

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Author: Western Daily Press