Airlines UK response to the independent Interim Report into the August 2023 NATS IT failure

March 14th, 2024

Commenting on the publication of the independent Interim Report into the August 2023 NATS IT failure, Tim Alderslade, CEO of Airlines UK, the industry body representing UK-registered carriers, said:

“This report contains damning evidence that NATS’ basic resilience planning and procedures were wholly inadequate and fell well below the standard that should be expected for national infrastructure of this importance.  

“We welcome the Committee’s plans for further investigation to provide recommendations so that this kind of catastrophic failure is not allowed to happen again.”