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Air traffic control boss given a week to report after UK flight chaos cancels 2,000-plus flights

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Government remains confident in under-pressure Martin Rolfe but transport secretary believes glitch was avoidable

The head of the air traffic control provider Nats has been given a week to report back on the reasons for a technical failure which grounded thousands of flights, as the transport secretary declared that she did “not believe the issue was unavoidable”.

Heidi Alexander said on Tuesday she had also commissioned an independent review by the Civil Aviation Authority into the latest Nats meltdown that severely disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

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