A power outage at a National Air Traffic Service’s (NATS) radar site has halted arrivals to Birmingham Airport.
NATS has apologised for the disruption and said the outage was caused by poor weather in the area. They added that their engineers were working with National Grid to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
Nine flights have been cancelled or diverted at the airport, with at least 12 due to be delayed – several flights have delays of over four hours.
A spokesperson said: «Due to a technical issue with NATS’ radar that serves Birmingham Airport, only departing flights are currently operating, with some delays.
«All arriving flights are currently suspended. We apologise for the delay to customers, and we are working closely with NATS to rectify the issue.»
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