{"id":738208,"date":"2022-01-06T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/it-malfunction-at-gatwick-airport-causes-travel-delays\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:10:17","slug":"it-malfunction-at-gatwick-airport-causes-travel-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/it-malfunction-at-gatwick-airport-causes-travel-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"IT malfunction at Gatwick Airport causes travel delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IT-malfunction-at-Gatwick-Airport-causes-travel-delays.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Flights were unable to land or take off at Gatwick airport in England for just under two hours Thursday morning after a computer glitch disrupted travel.<\/p>\n<p>Air controllers were forced to shut down a malfunctioning IT system, guiding flights under a backup system from about 7:25 a.m. to 9:10 a.m., with many planes left circling during the &#8220;switch down.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three flights also were diverted to London.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers traveling from Antigua and Tampa on British Airways were landed at Heathrow airport 45 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>An EasyJet flight from Belfast was also redirected, heading to Luton airport, which is on the other side of London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some flights may still experience delays however and passengers are advised to check their flight status with the airline,&#8221; a Gatwick spokesperson said according to The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 flights were expected Thursday at Gatwick, which was the busiest single-runway airport in the world in 2019.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-block embed-object\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>We have been experiencing IT issues in the Air Traffic Control tower this morning, resulting in three diverted flights.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to experience delays with both arrivals and departures, and are working to fully resolve this as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com\/7Wlc4em5Q6\u2014 Gatwick Airport LGW (@Gatwick_Airport) January 6, 2022<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212; Flights were unable to land or take off at Gatwick airport in England for just under two hours Thursday morning after a computer glitch disrupted travel. Air controllers were forced to shut down a malfunctioning IT system, guiding flights under a backup system from about 7:25 a.m. to 9:10 a.m., with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}