Government must improve resilience of air traffic control - shadow transport minister

Shadow transport minister has criticised the government and Nats for allowing another air traffic control incident after a major outage brought UK airports to a standstill last year. “Yet again passengers are stuck on the tarmac wondering why Britain cannot keep its own skies open," Greg Smith says. He adds that Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander "promised after last year’s Swanwick fault that she would work with Nats to prevent this happening again. It has happened again. “The Govern