giving you a sense of what they are saying, aer lingus saying we are aware of a failure involving ukng uk airtraffic and we are aware of a failure involving uk air traffic and service planning systems, outside of aer lingus control and causing severe restrictions on all flights into the uk and flying over uk airspace today. similar statements too from virgin atlantic, apologising in advance to customers who may be affected and urging people to check their flight status in advance. plenty more coverage of the disruption that is ongoing, for the moment we will take a quick pause and get the weather. hello. there are still some shells out there today, but on the whole they are not as potent as the downpours we have seen over the last couple of days. quite large amounts of clouds to take us through the rest of the afternoon. breaking to reveal some spells of sunshine, but equally still producing one of two mainly light showers. showers could crop up just about anywhere, but there will be breaks in the cloud, some spells of sunshine. late in the afternoon this band of rain approaching the

the irish airline aer lingus said this. lets go to london gatwick. they have a statement. statement: birmingham airport has also released a statement: so, a similar theme from the airlines and from the airport. they are basically saying that this is a uk wide problem, they cannot give any definitive timescale. the technical issues, until they are resolved, are impossible to know. we have not been given any more information from the air traffic control organisation about how far through they are in resolving any of those technical issues. so, until we do, there is an unknown timeline. we know there will be delays, and of course, we get delays. the more delays, the more cancellations, the longer it goes on, and the more potential knock—on problems there are. we did have a quick update, a technical update. our report at nicky schiller brought it to as a moment ago. i will test your technical knowledge now. bring it to us again, do your best to decode it for us. , , ., ., ., ., for us. this is from the national air traffic _ for us. this is from the national air traffic servic

i irish airline aer lingus has released a statement saying...tement. those are some of the statements we are getting. birmingham airport has also released a statement. let's show you these pictures now. there is a greatly reduced number of flights overhead after this technical issue hit uk air traffic control systems, thousands of people facing long delays at airports, so the uk airspace is not closed, but it has brought in traffic restrictions to maintain safety. as we were hearing earlier, all these flight plans are now being processed manually because of that technical issue making it impossible to do automatically so while work is going on at a much slower rate which means many cancellations, that is the scene at heathrow, we will keep your cross what's happening. and we will now bring in the transport correspondent for the times. thank you for joining us. huge disruption this is causing? joining us. huge disruption this is causina ? , , joining us. huge disruption this is causinu? , , ., ., joining us. huge disruption this is causinl? , , .

in the last half hour irish airline aer lingus has released a statement.ter airport has released a statement. birmingham airport has released a statement. with more on this here's our news reporter, nicky schiller. i think it is important to stress that air—traffic control is operating, it is not completely shut as this flight radar map can show you these fights are taking off and landing and there are still a lot of them across england. the issue as they are not doing that as fast as they are not doing that as fast as they usually do. if i zoom in on london and heathrow you can see around basingstoke a stack of planes waiting there, stacking up as they come into land but here we are, heathrow airport, you can see there are still planes on the tarmac for the planes will come in and land on this runway, we have been seeing them land throughout the morning. normally, a plane would land roughly every 45 seconds at heathrow. but with the issue now and as we keep saying, we don't know exactly what the problem is with the air—traffic control, but it does seem it

we've got aer lingus from dublin. air france . from paris. dublin. air france. from paris.rankfurt , from cologne, from frankfurt, from cologne, from hamburg, from stuttgart. klm from amsterdam. that's also off. but british airways is the one to watch because, of course, they've got more than half the flights going in and out of the uk's busiest airport. i'm seeing extraordinary things. yes there's a dozen or so cancelled in places like paris, milan, copenhagen , but also something copenhagen, but also something i've never seen before. many flights which are scheduled for the early hours of tomorrow morning, um, taking off between 1 am. and 4 morning, um, taking off between 1a.m. and 4 am. i really can't see that happening because pilots cabin crew would be out of hours and i'm afraid every every minute this goes on, it means more people who tomorrow morning will be waking up where they don't want to be. and this is all happening on one of the busiest days of the year for aviation . aviation. >> so how likely is it then that this disruption could not just run into hours , i

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