More flights cancelled a day after an air traffic control problem disrupted travel across Britain
2-MIN READ2-MINAgence France-PressePublished: 11:39am, 9 Sep 2026Travellers in the UK faced more misery on Wednesday with more than 150 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain’s air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch that sparked chaos.
Aircraft tracking website FlightRadar24 said 177 flights scheduled for Wednesday had already been axed, following 1,300 cancellations to and from UK airports a day before.
Nearly all the latest affected flights were at Britain’s busiest airport Heathrow in London, FlightRadar24 wrote on X.
The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said it was still working to resolve disruption following a “system issue”.
“This has been a very complex recovery and has created difficulties for the whole aviation network, from which it will take time to recover,” said NATS in an X post late Tuesday.
UK news outlets reported that British Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will meet NATS boss Martin Rolfe on Wednesday.
