Busiest day for air traffic so far in July

Busiest day for air traffic so far in July

In July, NATS handled 252,173 flights in UK airspace, an increase of 0.9% on July 2018.

There was growth in many areas of the operation, especially non-transatlantic international overflying traffic and transatlantic overflights, increasing by 6.5% and 5% respectively. Traffic grew at seven of the 13 airports where NATS provides the air traffic control service, including three of the ’big five’ London Airports – Heathrow, Luton and London City.

NATS handled almost 24% of Europe’s traffic in July, maintaining high levels of punctuality.  Across all 252,173 flights handled in July, 98% had no NATS-attributable delay. Year to date, the average air traffic control delay per flight is just seven seconds.

Juliet Kennedy, NATS operations director, said: “Last month we recorded our busiest-ever day, with 8,863 flights handled by controllers on Friday 5 July. However, that’s not to say that this record won’t be broken again over the summer holiday season. Our air traffic controllers, in our centres and at the airports, are now regularly managing a total of more than 8,000 flights a day, and working extremely hard to ensure that each flight is handled safely and efficiently.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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James Graham

James Graham is an award-winning transport media journalist with a long background in the commercial freight sector, including commercial aviation and the aviation supply chain. He was the initial Air Cargo Week journalist and retuned later for a stint as editor. He continues his association as editor of the monthly supplements. He has reported for the newspaper from global locations as well as the UK.

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