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British transport secretary Heidi Alexander will meet the boss of the UK’s airspace controller today to discuss the 20-minute failure of computer systems that led to widespread disruption yesterday.
Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of NATS, formerly the National Air Traffic Service, is under pressure over the issue, the second to cause major disruption over the last two years.
Ryanair’s chief operating officer, Neal McMahon, called for Rolfe to resign yesterday after disruption at airports including London’s Heathrow and Stansted – although the Irish airline has had a vendetta against NATS for years, and calls for the boss’s resignation at every opportunity.
Alexander said that she would meet NATS today to try to “prevent reoccurrence” of the glitches. She posted on the X social network:
