traffic gradually resumes after all takeoffs were suspended for more than an hour, mid-afternoon
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The computer bug struck again in the sky London. Already victim of several computer crashes in the past, the British air traffic control NATS had simply close the airspace in the region of London, on Friday afternoon because of faulty computers. Around 16:30, no flight could not take off the five London airports Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and City Center and all flights were being diverted to other European airports, Roissy-CDG. By late afternoon, however, a statement from NATS announced a gradual return to normal and some flights were authorized on final approach to land. But according to the Eurocontrol website, access restrictions should continue until at least 20 hours, many delays and cancellations were expected.
huge implications
This failure of an unprecedented scale, which would be due to a power cut in the center Swanwick has affected tens of thousands of passengers and thousands of flights. According to NATS, about 300 flights were underway in the area at the time of failure. The sky of London with London Heathrow airport as the epicenter, is indeed one of the busiest in the world, with that of the Ruhr, Germany. London is not only the first international airport in the world and the main door of the traffic input from North America, through which pass 50% of flights to the United States, but it is also the starting point and Arrival of a good half of the low cost traffic. British Airways, Ryanair and Easyjet also, have their main bases of operation.
The British air traffic control was one of the first to be privatized in Europe in 2000 . This latest incident is likely to revive the controversy, never completely extinguished, on the merits of privatization, at a time when the European Commission is seeking to restart the liberalization of the sector in Europe, as part of the project ” Single Sky “.
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