Transport minister rules out cyber-attack after hundreds of flights to and from the UK cancelled
Flight passengers will be affected by UK air traffic control failures for days, the transport secretary has warned as he urged airlines to step up and fulfil their responsibilities to passengers.
On Tuesday, Harper ruled out a cyber-attack. He said: “First of all, I want reiterate what Nats said yesterday, they apologised for the disruption, I’d like to add my apology to that, I’ve been in a similar position when flights are cancelled. It’s incredibly disruptive so I do understand that.” “I don’t wish at this point to rush to judgment … they had to go to a manual system they have as a failsafe. Their primary responsibility is to make sure people fly safely so they had to reduce the capacity of the system.”
Harper said he did not accept that the wider UK transport infrastructure could not be relied on. “On 99.9% of occasions, the air traffic system works perfectly well millions of people fly into the UK without incident, clearly it was a big problem … I’m not minimising it … these things do not happen frequently.”
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