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'We've had enough': easyJet chief demands 'wide-ranging review' of UK air traffic control

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Ilaria Grasso Macola
2 October 2023

EasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren has called for ’wide-ranging" reform of air traffic control services (ATS) in the UK after staff shortages and a bank holiday weekend outage caused major late summer delays and disruption across the country, but particularly at Gatwick airport.

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Johan Lundgren is returning to Tui after running easyJet (Pic: easyJet)

“We need reform of how Nats is regulated to ensure that all its services are robust and resilient so that UK travellers can be confident their flights will take off,” wrote Lundgren in a column for The Mail on Sunday (1 October). 

 

“We want to see a wide-ranging review into how the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) is structured, run and regulated so the systems and processes can be modernised."

 

Lundgren said staff shortages had caused 40 days of delays and cancellations since May, hitting hundreds of thousands of travellers.