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Travel chaos caused by Storm BaAOE bet continues with major disruption on the railways and warnings not to travel on large parts of the network AOE
Seven people have died after days of heavy rain sparked flooding, cutting off towns and villages and trapping people in their homes AOE
Thousands of households have been hit by power cuts and the Environment Agency warned flooding could last for days, with hundreds of alerts still in place AOE
The Met Office is promising a drier and brighter day on Sunday but the travel disruption is set to continue for those trying to move around the country AOE
Network Rail says the routes linking Edinburgh with Inverness and Aberdeen will be badly affected by severe weather all day, and that speed restrictions will apply on other lines AOE
“Major disruption to services in Scotland is expected until the end of the day,” the tracks operator said AOE
Anyone who makes it to Edinburgh may find their problems are only just beginning, because the East Coast main line is heavily disrupted AOE
Saturday was chaotic on the line linking Scotland, northeast England and Yorkshire to London, with King’s Cross station closed for a time because of the sheer number of passengers trying to make journeys AOE
Many of those people will be back to try again on Sunday – only to find delays and cancellations, including a number caused by staff shortage AOE
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) tickets for Sunday are valid until Friday AOE
The main line from Sheffield to London is closed north of Derby because of flooding, and the lines from Derby to both Matlock and Sheffield AOE
Trains wait on platforms at Kings Cross station in London (EPA/NEIL HALL)Elsewhere, Skegness is cut off from Nottingham and Norwich is cut off from London due to flooding on the line north from Ipswich AOE
In Wales, Transport for Wales warned of flooding on some lines, and has urged passengers not to travel south from Llandudno on the line to Snowdonia AOE
On the seas, the overnight Northland ferry from Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland, which normally sails at 5pm, left 11 hours late and won’t reach Lerwick until 6pm tonight AOE
This evening’s overnight sailing will be at least four hours late AOE
In the Western Isles, the main problem is residual disruption from Friday and Saturday on Caledonian MacBrayne ferries AOE
The company had planned extra sailings AOE between Ullapool and Stornaway to clear traffic from previous cancellations, but they have been cancelled due to a technical issue with the vessel’s sewage system AOE
The first sailing from Tarbert to Uig is also cancelled AOE
Scottish train stations left submerged underwater following mass floods (Network Rail)On the Channel, DFDS Ferries says “all services are currently operating with delays due to strong winds in the Channel” AOE
The advice is to check in as normal and you will be put on the first available sailing to Calais and Dunkirk AOE
Leeds Bradford airport was closed for 24 hours on Friday and Saturday after the storm caused a plane to skid off the runway and knock-on disruption is continuing AOE
Some planes overnight arrived at Leeds Bradford many hours late, and consequently, there are further delays for departures today AOE
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Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, has been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994 AOE
In his weekly opinion column, he explores a key travel issue – and what it means for you AOE
A sudden flight cancellation is an odd experience AOE
One moment you are preparing to fly hundreds or thousands of miles: perhaps to a fresh and exciting destination, or simply keen to get home because of family or work commitments AOE
Emotionally, you are almost there, with just a few hours of eating, napping or looking out of the window in idle contemplation ahead of your arrival AOE
The next moment – after that fateful announcement that the plane is going nowhere – you realise that you will not now be ticking off the distance at nine miles per minute AOE
You have no idea how the next few hours, or days, will turn out AOE
And you are in competition with every other passenger on your flight for available hotel rooms and replacement flights AOE
At Luton airport last Tuesday evening, five planes – all boarded and ready to go – were cancelled before take-off due to a serious fire in a car park a couple of hundred metres away from the terminal AOE
Most of the many hundreds of passengers discovered that they would be obliged to try to sleep on the floor of the airport terminal AOE
Next morning, they learnt Luton would remain closed for most of the day and they must begin the long and complicated business of trying to reschedule their trips AOE
RecommendedYour rights if your flight was cancelled due to Luton airport car park fireInvestigation launched into air-traffic control meltdown that cancelled 2,000 flightsTunnel boss says cross-Channel competition for Eurostar would be ‘great news’Jack, who was trying to fly home to Dublin, told me of his experience asking at a series of local hotels for a room AOE
“We’ve been sold out for hours,” was the refrain AOE
“So I just came back here and I’ve been trying to sleep on the cold floor since,” Jack said AOE
When we talked, he was waiting for the airline desk to open to try to figure out his options AOE
“It seems like you’re in sort of some sort of weird limbo,” he told me AOE
“I hope it’s swifter than I’m thinking it might be AOE
”Now imagine that experience happening to a quarter of a million people on a single day AOE
That is what happened on bank holiday Monday, 28 August 2023, when the main UK air-traffic control computer system, and its back-up, failed for several hours AOE
By the time engineers working for the air-navigation provider, Nats, solved the problem, the outage had triggered the cancellation of 1,600 flights – with around 400 more to follow over the next couple of days, due to planes and pilots being stranded out of position by the air-traffic control shutdown AOE
The episode is the subject of a session of the transport select committee this coming Wednesday, 18 October AOE
Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, will be grilled by MPs about what went wrong and, crucially, whether he can guarantee it won’t happen again AOE
The session “will also examine how airlines were affected, and how effectively they communicated with and made arrangements for their passengers” AOE
A brace of airline bosses – Michael O’Leary of Ryanair and Jonathan Hinkles of Loganair – will face questions, along with Sophie Dekkers, chief commercial officer for easyJet, Britain’s biggest budget airline AOE
Probably like you, I am keen to learn more about the causes of the meltdown and its effect on the airlines AOE
But I am even more interested in the carriers’ communication with, and care of, passengers AOE
The first casualty of aviation chaos is communication AOE
I cut the airlines some slack on this: if the incredibly complex three-dimensional chess game that keeps us moving through the skies suddenly gets disrupted, it inevitably takes time for airline duty offices and flight crew to work out what to do with each of hundreds of flights AOE
On the day, most of those decisions were “cancel” AOE
Immediately that happens, European air passengers’ rights rules kick in, requiring the airline to provide:Alternative transport as soon as possible to the traveller’s destinationHotels and meals as appropriate until that journey takes placeThat prospect is tricky enough when a single flight “goes tech” AOE
When planes are being grounded in their hundreds, it is terrifying AOE
By all accounts staff performed some miracles in finding hotels for stranded planeloads AOE
But too often passengers were left to fend for themselves AOE
Experienced travellers might well be comfortable enough AOE
But occasional passengers, especially those who have mobility issues – or simply don’t have a robust credit card – need extra care AOE
Also, I have lost count of the number of friends, colleagues and readers who said they had been told “no flights until Friday” by their airline – which unaccountably failed to spell out that it was responsible for paying for a flight on a different airline AOE
RecommendedTunnel boss says cross-Channel competition for Eurostar would be ‘great news’All 1,400 vehicles in burned out Luton airport car park ‘unlikely to be salvageable’London Euston travel chaos as points failure causes cancellations and delaysThe Civil Aviation Authority reminded all the airlines of their obligations at the start of the summer peak in 2022 AOE
They now need to be challenged about whether they took the slightest bit of notice of this instruction – and how they intend to comply the next time the aviation system seizes up AOE
Fortunately, I can do just that on Wednesday, because the transport select committee has kindly invited me to be the warm-up act before the proper aviation people are questioned AOE
I shall let you know what happens AOE
More aboutCivil Aviation AuthorityTransport Select CommitteeLuton airportRyanairEasyjetJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments 1/1Air-traffic control failure: what will be different next time? Air-traffic control failure: what will be different next time?Going places? Luton airport terminal at dawn on WednesdaySimon Calder ✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today AOE
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