Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Delay at Schiphol airport due to interference with air traffic control – NOS

A system failure at air traffic control the Netherlands is leading to many delays in incoming and outgoing flights at Schiphol airport. According to a spokesman, is working hard to resolve the malfunction, that at 8.15 am it started.

The failure occurs in the system of incoming flights. That is why working with a back-up procedure that as a precaution are less incoming flights at the same time can be handled. The fault has now also consequences for outgoing flights.

How many flights are affected by the delay, is not known. In the sky are special ‘wachtgebieden’ where aircraft in anticipation of the landing may circle. “It takes the fault for longer than we’ll contact you with the devices before they leave, so that they adjust to Schiphol airport when the malfunction has been resolved.” says a spokesman for air traffic control the Netherlands. That has now happened with flights from Great Britain and France.

amsterdam Airport Schiphol can be nothing else than wait until the problem is over. “We know that now at least four flights were diverted to other airports. And we advise travelers to our website or from the airline keep an eye out for further information.

Five flights of the KLM are now diverted to other airports; and three to Rotterdam, the netherlands, to Eindhoven and one to Brussels. Seven other flights are cancelled.

According to the website of air traffic control the Netherlands will be the disturbance on the whole of the morning last.

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