UK NATS confirms technical issue at Swanwick air traffic control centre
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Background ✨
Ryanair's COO Neal McMahon stated that the Swanwick radar issue on 30-Jul-2025 caused major disruption to thousands of passengers and criticised the recurrence of such failures, referencing a similar NATS outage in August 2023 that led to widespread flight cancellations and delays1 2. Following the 2023 incident, both the UK Civil Aviation Authority and IATA called for reviews of NATS' system resilience and response protocols3 4.