Posted on September 26, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard

Flights were cancelled and hundreds more were dealyed at airports across south-east England yesterday following a computer glitch at Britain’s main air traffic control centre.

Aircraft were unable to depart from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton airports between 4pm and 4.30pm, airport groups said after a system failure.

British Airways cancelled flights at Heathrow after a backlog of 30 plames built up.

Over 10,000 passengers were stranded after 88 flights were scrapped at London’s main airports with services at Cardiff International and Manchester also affected.

A spokesperson for NATS, Britain’s largest air traffic controller said its Swanwick centre had suffered a computer failure that affected the monitoring of flights when they reach a higher altitude, forcing immediate changes to flight patterns that caused take-off delays.

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