at 18 o’clock on Saturday there were still major delays in air traffic at the airport and it was expected to continue throughout the evening. According to the Civil Aviation Administration (LFV) is the problem with the flight plan management system and the error was discovered at lunchtime.
– We have, unfortunately, a new glitch. This is about the road map management system that describes the plan to be traveling in the airspace, route, departure airport is not working as it should. Because of the error, we must do a manual operation, said Per Froberg, at LFV’s press office.
The roadmap information is handled digitally and left between airlines and air traffic control prior to each flight.
– We put on five minutes each starting from Arlanda. Unfortunately, the few minutes we have had to put built on delays, but we hope the impact will be less during the evening as the traffic becomes more sparse, said.
According to the CAA, the problems have led to up to one and a half-hour delays for some flights. For SAS it is about more than 20 flights from the airport and 20 back to have suffered, says Cathrine Myhren, at the SAS press office.
– We have huge delays at the airport, SAS extent it on 15 minutes to an hour. We work hard to inform our passengers and help to get those travelers who are next in line. But if flights delayed out that often makes the consequence that they will be late back again.
According to Henrik Kelfve at Swedavia can traffic at other airports around the country have been affected as a result of the delays at the airport.
at 18 o’clock it was still unclear when the problem would be fixed.
– Right now, we refer all our passengers to contact their tour operators or go through our website where they can keep up to date, says Kelfve.
on Thursday in the last week shut down large parts of the airspace of the Arlanda and Bromma for a radio communication which created chaos and delays in traffic. A technical failure in Telia was behind the problems, but the incident is still under investigation by the authorities.
The Swedish Civil Contingencies report that following the development of events.
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