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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Ryanair was forced to cancel over 350 flights due to air traffic control chaos

Passengers board a Ryanair plane
Passengers board a Ryanair plane. The airline said August was its best ever for passenger numbers. Photograph: Holger Burmeister/Alamy

Ryanair has said last month was its best ever for passenger numbers even though it was forced to cancel hundreds of 350 flights because of the air traffic control systems failure in Britain.

The Irish carrier said on Monday that 63,000 of its passengers had been affected by the disruption that continued for several days after the UK’s national air traffic services, Nats, was forced to revert to manual flight management after a computer failure a week ago.

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