Approximately 5,000 passengers scheduled to arrive in or departing from Cyprus on Tuesday and Wednesday have been affected by Britain’s air traffic control failure, Hermes airports told the Cyprus Mail on Wednesday.
“This is a developing situation,” Hermes said. Those affected so far have faced both delays and cancellations.
According to the airport, some of the flights that were cancelled on Tuesday have been rescheduled for Wednesday, while it remains unclear whether or how many cancellations and/or delays are to be expected on Wednesday.
Meanwhile the information board at Larnaca airport on Wednesday morning showed at least two cancellations of flights arriving and departing from London Heathrow in the afternoon.
Flights departing to and from Cyprus from Britain were on Tuesday affected by a failure in the UK traffic control system which caused widespread cancellations and delays at airports across the country.
A total of 30 flights to and from both airports in Cyprus were affected by the problems that occurred at British airports on Tuesday, the majority of which, 16, concerned flights to and from Larnaca airport, while an additional 14 flights were affected that were scheduled to depart from or arrive at Paphos airport.
Flights from British airports had resumed on Wednesday morning with airports cautioning that it would require time for operations to revert to normal after the disruption resulted in several aircraft landed in different locations.
Tuesday’s disruption resulted in the cancellation of more than 400 flights across Britain while another 600 flights were delayed with London Heathrow airport alone reporting 367 delays and 100 cancellations.
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