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Nearly 750,000 passengers were caught up in widespread grounding of flights last August bank holidayAn independent review into the August bank holiday air traffic control meltdown, which affected nearly 750,000 passengers, has highlighted a “significant lack of pre-planning”.Flights were grounded across UK airports on 28 August after the ATC provider National Air Traffic Services (Nats) experienced a technical glitch while processing a flight plan....

The airport hopes for a bumper 2024 – but are its new owners happy about the fading prospects for a third runway? Are the good times coming back for Heathrow? The next 12 months may define a fresh era: new ownership, a new chief executive and a line apparently drawn under the Covid-induced slump. Now, the London airport believes, 2024 will bring record passenger...