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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Airlines call for compensation reform after ‘staggering’ air chaos revelation

Passengers wait at Stansted airport after UK flights were delayed over a technical issue
Passengers wait at Stansted airport after UK flights were delayed over a technical issue now thought to have been triggered by a single incorrect flight plan. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Airlines have urged reform of compensation rules after the “staggering” revelation that a single wrongly input flight plan to UK air traffic control disrupted hundreds of thousands of passengers’ flights.

Nats, which controls UK airspace, said “an unusual piece of data” had caused the unprecedented system failure on Monday, which led to more than 1,600 flights being axed and many more delayed.

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