# ‘Everyone’s had their holidays ruined’: outrage after UK airport chaos

https://mins.news/en/item/52074

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-09 22:06 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/9/everyones-had-their-holidays-ruined-outrage-after-uk-airport-chaos?traffic_source=rss

> Transport minister Heidi Alexander has ordered the UK’s independent aerospace regulator to independently investigate the cause of an air traffic control system outage on Tuesday that resulted in thousands of flight cancellations.

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