UK's Birmingham airport resumes flights

An air traffic control problem grounded flights at England's Birmingham Airport at two hours, following disruptions at Gatwick Airport.

Birmingham airport in Britain has resumed services after suspending operations earlier due to an air traffic control fault, the airport says.

"Following the earlier air traffic control technical fault, Birmingham Airport has now resolved the issue and operations have now resumed", the airport said in a statement on Sunday.

The fault was due to a failure of the electronic flight plan system, according to a statement from air traffic control agency Eurocontrol, cited by the BBC.

Flights were suspended for about two hours beginning around 6pm.

The airport is the seventh busiest in Britain, serving about 12 million passengers a year.

The incident follows three days of disruption at London's Gatwick Airport after drones appeared on the site, which affected 140,000 people between Wednesday and Friday.


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