Rolling 12-month passenger volume reached 215.1 million, while the airline said more than 1,000 September flights were cancelled amid air traffic control disruption and Mount Etna eruptions. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ryanair carried 20.1 million guests in September 2026, up 4% from 19.4 million in September 2025. The airline's September load factor remained unchanged at 94% year… Read the full news article
The 21 September network issue was confined to operations in Scotland and was unrelated to the separate software defect earlier this month, NATS says KEY TAKEAWAYS NATS said a connectivity issue at its Prestwick Centre prompted air traffic regulations early on 21 September while engineers investigated The fault was fixed and NATS said it was… Read the full news article
Airline says more than 140 flights and 25,000 passengers were affected; NATS says the connectivity fault was fixed and unrelated to the September 8 software failure. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ryanair says more than 140 of its flights and over 25,000 passengers were affected by the September 21 disruption, with some delays reaching three hours. NATS says… Read the full news article
Preliminary findings say more than 2,000 flights were delayed, cancelled or diverted after a legacy fault disrupted flight-data processing; a permanent fix is under test. KEY TAKEAWAYS NATS says a previously unknown legacy software defect was triggered during a roughly one-millisecond timing window while a manual squawk-code request was being processed. The incident contributed to… Read the full news article
NATS says a previously unknown legacy defect triggered six hours of UK airspace restrictions on September 8, while the CAA begins an independent resilience review. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ryanair renewed its call for NATS chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign after NATS published its preliminary findings on the September 8 disruption. NATS says a previously unknown… Read the full news article
Passengers hit by the September 8 disruption may still be entitled to refunds, rerouting, meals and accommodation as the regulator prepares an independent review of NATS resilience. KEY TAKEAWAYS The UK Civil Aviation Authority says delays and cancellations directly caused by the September 8 NATS technical issue are likely to qualify as extraordinary circumstances, making… Read the full news article
COO Neal McMahon calls for CEO Martin Rolfe to go as the government orders a one-week NATS technical report and a separate CAA review KEY TAKEAWAYS Ryanair COO Neal McMahon has called for NATS CEO Martin Rolfe to be removed and questioned the credibility of NATS assessing its own latest system failure. The 8 September… Read the full news article
The airline says more than 60,000 passengers have been rebooked as it restores nearly 80% of its network following Tuesday’s UK air traffic control failure KEY TAKEAWAYS British Airways says Tuesday’s NATS air traffic control issue has forced almost 550 flight cancellations and affected more than 85,000 customers. More than 60,000 affected customers had been… Read the full news article
After widespread UK flight cancellations, Fadl Mantash says issuers, BNPL providers and airport merchants should prepare for sudden transaction swings and third-party disruption. KEY TAKEAWAYS The 8 September NATS flight processing failure triggered widespread UK cancellations and continued knock-on disruption into 9 September. Tribe Payments CISO Fadl Mantash says refund, chargeback and rebooking volumes can… Read the full news article
