Italian airports controller fixes network failure that caused flight delays

ROME, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Air travellers faced delays and cancellations across Italy on Friday due to a technical fault affecting air traffic control, which authorities said was not caused by sabotage of any type and was fixed later in the day.

Air traffic control company ENAV said it introduced temporary restrictions on air traffic capacity after detecting anomalies overnight on the data transmission network supporting air traffic services nationwide.

As of around 1000 GMT, aviation analytics company Cirium counted 192 cancellations, and found that only around 31% of flights from Italian airports had departed on time, falling to 25% at Milan’s Malpensa and 28% at Rome’s Fiumicino.

ENAV said at around 1325 GMT it had managed to restore full operational capacity.

(Reporting by Alvise Armellini and Gianluca Lo Nostro, Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Gavin Jones)

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