UK air traffic chaos: easyJet lays on flights for stranded customers

Failure blamed on dodgy' flight plan by unnamed carrier could cost airlines 100m

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EasyJet has begun the repatriation of customers stranded by Monday's collapse of the UK's air traffic control system, with five flights scheduled to bring customers back to Gatwick airport, as airlines estimated the failure could cost them up to 100m.

Airlines are facing costs in the tens of millions", according to Willie Walsh, the former chief executive of British Airways, who is now the director general of theInternational Air Transport Association, as disruption extended into the third day.