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Tuesday, 16 December 2014

BBC News

• 10,000 hit by Heathrow flight chaosUp to 10,000 passengers at Heathrow alone were affected by an air traffic control computer failure, the transport secretary confirms.
• 10,000 hit by Heathrow flight chaosUp to 10,000 passengers at Heathrow alone were affected by an air traffic control computer failure, the transport secretary confirms.
• Independent inquiry into flight chaosAn independent inquiry is to be set up to investigate the air traffic control computer failure which disrupted flights at UK airports last week.

Financial Times

• Nats defends system as failure scrutinisedGroup monitoring UK skies has dismissed MP’s criticism it has underinvested

The Independent

• Air-traffic chaos: Transport Secretary hints at compensation for 'unacceptable' failure The tens of thousands of passengers whose planes were cancelled because of Friday’s air-traffic control collapse may be in line for compensation, the Transport Secretary has hinted.

The Telegraph

• Air traffic boss suggests he will still be entitled to large bonusRichard Deakin refuses to outline how pay could be affected, insisting that company performance over the year had been

The Mirror

• American Airlines passenger jet turns back to London after on-board emergencyThe Boeing 777 had left Heathrow at midday and was at a point north of Scotland when the decision was made to turn back

Doncaster Free Press

• Doncaster Sheffield Airport wins awardDoncaster Sheffield Airport has won the Customer Service Award at the annual Doncaster Business Awards.

Other Regional Press

• Western Daily Press published As many as 10,000 Heathrow passengers were affected last week's...As many as 10,000 passengers at Heathrow were affected by the cancellations caused by last week's air traffic control computer failure, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has told MPs. He said that the failure, at the Hampshire headquarters of air traffic control company Nats, caused 16,000 minutes of delays. This compared with 126,000 minutes of delays when there was a computer glitch at the Swanwick centre in December last year. Although Mr McLoughlin repeated his earlier statement that...

Other News Sources

• Airport Education Centre prepares for take-offConstruction work has begun on a £500,000 airport themed education centre that is set to boost skills across science, technology, engineering and maths subjects (STEM).