A HUGE power outage has caused severe delays and flight diversions at a major UK airport.
Birmingham Airport has had to halt all arrivals and delay flights, effecting many travellers and tourists.
The National Air Traffic Service has apologised for the disruption explaining that poor weather conditions caused the power outage.
This comes after Storm Goretti has brought gusts of almost 100mph and a rare red warning from the Met Office for “dangerous, stormy” winds earlier this week.
Engineers are said to be working with the national grid to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
Only departing planes are allowed to fly from the airport, while inbound flights have been suspended and diverted to other airports.
Multiple flights have been diverted to East Midlands Airport and Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport.
Twelve lights have been delayed and nine flights either cancelled or diverted with several flights delayed for over four hours.
A spokesperson said: “Due to a technical issue with NATS’ radar that serves Birmingham Airport, only departing flights are currently operating, with some delays.
“All arriving flights are currently suspended.
“We apologise for the delay to customers, and we are working closely with NATS to rectify the issue.”
Affected flights:
Departures:
- 06:00 Paris-CDG AF 1565 Cancelled
- 06:00 Frankfurt LH 959 Cancelled
- 06:15 Amsterdam KL 1040 Cancelled
Arrivals:
- 22:15 Paris-CDG EZY 6638 Cancelled
- 22:25 Prague EZY 6614 Cancelled
- 22:45 Cork FR 3737 Delayed
- 22:45 Frankfurt LH 958 Cancelled
- 22:50 Barcelona FR 3792 Delayed
- 00:15 Tenerife South FR 1122 Delayed
- 00:45 Sharm El Sheikh TOM 523 Delayed
- 00:50 Bucharest FR 8996 Delayed
- 01:05 Hurghada EZY 6636 Delayed
- 01:15 Shannon FR 3258 Delayed
- 04:20 Bridgetown TOM 245 Delayed