Unfortunately, disruptive weather and storms are becoming more and more frequent, which means we have to put measures in place to help manage flights in UK airspace and at UK airports during these events.   

Friday 26 July and all eyes were on Paris for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Our eyes were on the skies, though, where a huge 80-mile exclusion zone around the French capital kicked in at 4.30pm and stayed in place till 10pm. For neighbouring countries like the UK this meant a massive amount of planning for the air traffic likely to reroute through our airspace.

It’s very rare for a storm to blanket the whole of the UK and Ireland, as Storm Isha did yesterday. Rarer still for it to deliver the strength of winds that it did. The challenge for the aviation industry is the difficulty for flight crew bringing their aircraft in to land.