Birmingham Airport advice to passengers with flights booked as runway closes
If you have flights booked from Birmingham Airport today, you might be wondering what to do.
The airport has issued advice for those with flights booked and has promised to keep passengers updated.
What to do if you have a flight booked at Birmingham Airport
The airport has explained that passengers with flights booked this afternoon should 'check the status of their flight before coming to the airport'.
If you are already at Birmingham Airport, you will be kept updated, it added.
The airport added to its X post: 'We apologise for the inconvenience this will cause.'
You can follow our live blog for updates here.
ITV reports that the runway could be closed until 6pm this evening, but Birmingham Airport has yet to confirm this publicly to passengers.
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The closure of Birmingham Airport's runway comes just days after an issue at a NATS control centre in Swanwick, Hampshire, which affected the vast majority of England and Wales on Wednesday, July 30.
A Government source said the failure lasted around 20 minutes, and the level of disruption was similar to a day with bad weather.
More than 700,000 passengers suffered disruption when flights were grounded at UK airports in August 2023 when Nats suffered a technical glitch while processing a flight plan.
Aviation analytics company Cirium said 84 departures and 71 arrivals were cancelled to or from UK airports up to 10pm on Wednesday.
Several flights were diverted to other European airports.
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