yes, swanwick, which air-traffic control problems.ooks air-traffic control problems. yes, swanwick, which looks after the southern half a briton out into the channel, they say they are having a technical problem which is causing flight technical problem which is causing flight restrictions. this, the busiest day of the year for many airlines and many airports, is exactly the do you want everything to work properly, and i'm afraid it is not. british airways proactively cancelled 50 flights over night, they have in the past hour or two cancelled dozens more, i am counting about 80 cancellations, including holiday flights. normally it is flights like places to dusseldorf that gets cancelled, but they have cancelled athens, malaga, ibiza and so on, so tens of thousands of people on those flights, and easyjet flights from gatwick and luton, they are having horrible times trying to sort out their trips. briefly, infrastructure caught out again? yes, we seem to get an awful lot of capacity out of a victorian railway system and a second world