Nearly 400 flights canceled in the United Kingdom due to failure in the air control system

Around 400 flights have been canceled this Tuesday in the United Kingdom due to a breakdown in the system that processes NATS flight plans, the private provider that manages the country's air control. The problem has mainly affected departures at Heathrow airport, the largest in the country, west of London, where there have been a hundred cancellations and another 367 flights have suffered delays.

In Gatwick, south of the capital, 250 have suffered delays, more than 30% of planned operations, according to data from the Flightradar24 tracking platform cited by Reuters. Stansted and Luton, as well as Manchester and Birmingham, in England, have also recorded incidents; Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, in Scotland, and Dublin airport.