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The incident led to days of disruption, costing airlines millions of pounds as they scrambled to get crews and aircraft back in place and refund passengers.

The head of air traffic control has been paid more than £2million in bonuses over the past three years despite overseeing repeated system failures.

Hundreds of thousands of Britons may not receive compensation if their flights were hit in Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s air travel chaos.

Britain’s NATS air traffic control provider has a ‌week to investigate the systems failure that halted flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, the government said, as pressure mounts on its chief executive.

Air ambulance pilots are issuing an urgent safety warning after a record number of emergency flights were disrupted by drones.

Emergency services were called to an incident at Dunkeswell Aerodrome at 1 PM on Friday.

A review of the August bank holiday air traffic meltdown looked at what happened when provider National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered a technical glitch while processing a flight plan

Civil Aviation Authority figures show just 64% of flights departed or arrived within 15 minutes of the scheduled time in 2023

Ozzy Osbourne called the Bound 2 rapper Kanye West an "antisemite" after he'd asked to sample one of the Black Sabbath frontman's performances

Wizz Air, Ryanair, Vueling, British Airways and Iberia have been ranked at the bottom of a list of worst short haul airlines in Europe according to respondents to a Which? survey

The owners of the UK airport reported underlying pre-tax profits of £38 million in 2023, against losses of £684 million the previous year and marking the first time it has made a profit since 2019

An easyJet pilot reportedly 'cancelled' a flight shortly before it was due to take-off from Birmingham to Geneva due to a "funny smell" leaving more than 100 passengers stranded

Specialist Aviation Service, which provided helicopters and pilots for air ambulance services across the South of England, has been sold to Gama Aviation

Abhilasha and Ashok Aliseril jet off anywhere they like with daughters Tara, eight, and five-year-old Diya after Ashok built an aeroplane in the garden of their home in Billericay, Essex

The Hungarian airline has also improved the way it handles claims, such as introducing an automated refund process

After Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 experienced an emergency landing today, the airline grounded its entire fleet of Boeing Max-9 aircraft and each plane will be inspected, Civil Aviation Authority says

Manchester, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports could all fail to hit a Department of Transport deadline to install new quicker hand luggage scanners by June 2024

If approved there will be up to 80 drone flights a day going to hospitals and elsewhere in North East England to send frequently-used supplies, from medicines to joint replacement implants

Passengers planning on travelling via air over the Christmas period have been advised of some items which cannot be brought on board planes with millions set to fly to see loved ones

Gatwick, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Bristol and Stansted have all featured in a list of the airports in the UK with the highest number of delayed flights so far in 2023, according to Civil Aviation Authority data

Wayne Smith, from London, was left furious in the wake of security checks at Stansted Airport in which he said a worker forced him to expose his stoma and hernia

By law bosses must provide clean and easily accessible bathrooms for their staff, but a survey has revealed thousands of women workers who have no loos to use at work

The Civil Aviation Authority has approved a Virgin Atlantic flight powered completely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel to take off from London Heathrow to New York on November 28