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Bizav Traffic Impacted by UK Air Traffic Control Failure
Thousands of commercial airline flights were canceled on Tuesday and Wednesday

Many business aviation flights were affected yesterday by the serious disruption to air traffic control services in the UK, which triggered several thousand airline flight cancellations and delays at multiple airports. Flight data group Cirium reported that almost one-third of all movements at the UK’s main airports were canceled yesterday, with operations slowly recovering today.

According to Sean Raftery, senior director of international business with flight support group Universal Aviation UK, many business aviation flights were canceled and others were delayed by up to five hours. He told AIN that operators of aircraft at London Biggin Hill Airport for the Air Charter Expo yesterday were faced with canceling departures or accepting very long delays.