NATS, the UK’s leading air traffic management provider, is working together with the airport authorities to ease the situation as quickly as possible.
Inbound flow controls are being applied at the request of individual airports to ease the congestion on the ground. There are no restrictions on departures.
Notes to Editors:
- NATS handled 2.3 million flights in 2005, covering the UK and eastern North Atlantic and carried more than 220 million passengers safely through some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world.
- NATS provides ‘en route’ air traffic control or air traffic management from the London Area Control Centre at Swanwick, Hampshire, London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton, Middlesex, Scottish Area Control Centre and Oceanic Area Control Centre at Prestwick, Ayrshire and the Manchester Area Control Centre located at Manchester Airport.
- NATS also provides air traffic control services at 15 of the nation's major airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, together with air traffic services at Gibraltar Airport.
