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Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham and Jonathan Prynn

Airline chiefs join forces to plead: ‘Don’t ever let this chaos happen again’

The head of Gatwick airport on Wednesday joined a growing barrage of calls for an overhaul of Britain’s “international embarrassment” air traffic control system as thousands of passengers remained stranded overseas.

Stewart Wingate, Gatwick’s chief executive, said it was vital that there was no repeat of Monday’s meltdown and air traffic control chiefs needed to invest “so that events of this kind … do not happen at all”.

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