Airport Industry News
Josephine Cordero Sapién
23 September 2026
NATS, the UK’s major provider of air traffic services, has published a preliminary report investigating the events that led to widespread disruption to passengers earlier this month.
The report was requested by Heidi Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport. A full report is to follow. It is due within 60 days of the incident.
Martin Rolfe, Chief Executive Officer, NATS, said:
This was a software issue in a specific part of our flight data system, that we traced to a small subsection of coding. The issue has been identified and mitigation is in place while a permanent fix is safety tested and deployed.
He said this outage was unrelated to a major system disruption in August 2023. He further dismissed theories that this incident had been caused by military intervention...
