At least 1,000 tourists trapped in Corfu due to the collapse of Britain's flight management system

The technical problem on Monday in Britain's air traffic control systems continues to trouble thousands of travellers worldwide. The airport of Corfu was also affected by significant delays in charter flights.

The president of the CAA Corfu Employees Association, Dimitris Roussos, speaking to ERT Corfu, said that the problems started with the subsidence of parts of the aircraft parking runway before last Friday.

At the same time, a plane was stuck due to a mechanical problem, resulting in two parking spaces being lost. On the same day, three aircraft were parked in Athens and Preveza since they could not be accommodated for a few hours on the island.

The problem continued on Saturday and Sunday with long delays, while when the problem with the track was fixed at midday on Monday, the British management system collapsed.

Of the 84 foreign flights that landed in Corfu on Monday, 39 were from British airports and were forced to ground. At the same time, six flights from Great Britain were cancelled, resulting in at least 1,000 visitors being stranded on the island.

The situation is better today and is expected to normalise in the next few hours.

BA, easyJet and Ryanair are axing dozens more flights today after the "technical fault" that hit over 1,500 journeys yesterday.

Hundreds of flights to and from the UK have been delayed or cancelled after a breakage in the country's air traffic control systems yesterday.

The systems are now up and running again, but the controller NATS warned that the knock-on effects could be felt for days,

Dozens more flight cancellations have been announced this morning from easyJet, British Airways (BA), Ryanair and other airlines.

The four-hour system failure caused travel misery for thousands of passengers trying to return home on the UK's last bank holiday of the summer.

More than 1,500 flights due to arrive into or depart from the UK yesterday were cancelled, the latest data from aviation analytics firm Cirium reveals.

More than 1,500 flights due to arrive into or depart from the UK yesterday were cancelled, the latest data from aviation analytics firm Cirium reveals.

The breakdown has left the aircraft and flight crew out of position for today's schedule.

EasyJet has grounded more than 80 flights today, many from Gatwick Airport. At the same time, British Airways has axed more than 60 flights - mostly short-haul departures from Heathrow.

What caused the UK flight delays and cancellations?

A cyberattack did not cause the system failure, the UK government confirmed.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the problem was caused by a “technical fault” at flight control operator NATS (National Air Traffic Services).

The company said the outage had hit its ability to process flight plans automatically, meaning that for several hours, the plans had to be input manually, a much slower process that told fewer flights could take off and land.

"We have identified and remedied the technical issue affecting our flight planning system this morning," NATS said in a statement released at 3.15 pm UK local time yesterday.

"We are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the flights affected as efficiently as possible. Our engineers will carefully monitor the system’s performance as we return to normal operations."

"Our priority is ensuring every flight in the UK remains safe and doing everything we can to minimise the impact," NATS added.

They apologised for the disruption and advised passengers to contact airlines for information on their flights.

Harper told the BBC, "it is going to take some days to get people back to where they should be.”

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