A report following the disastrous NATS air traffic control meltdown last year ... had their flights cancelled at major UK hubs Heathrow and Gatwick Airport in part due to reported staff shortages ...

Nats, the UK’s main air traffic control provider ... are only ever applied to maintain safety,” a spokesperson said. Heathrow and Gatwick are respectively the busiest two-runway and single ...

London Heathrow, the busiest airport in Britain ... When adverse weather intervenes, dozens of flights are cancelled as the air-traffic control “flow rate” is reduced. The capacity increase ...

Heathrow has landings and take-offs every 80 seconds or so, while air-traffic control at Gatwick can get one plane down and another taking off every 65 seconds. But when things go, as they say in ...

Traffic was halted on ... long delays from junction 15 near Heathrow M4 to M40 at junction 1a. For a period the M25 was also shut anticlockwise for the Air Ambulance. A diversion was in place ...