A disgruntled passenger has described her experience of being stuck due to a UK-wide air traffic control failure on Monday 28 August.<br /><br />Holly Willems was travelling back to London from Paris when a technical fault in British air traffic control meant her flight was cancelled.<br /><br />She was informed that the next available flight would be on Thursday 31 August.<br /><br />Ms Willems and her travel companions booked Eurostar tickets for Wednesday and will be staying in a hotel until then out of their own pockets.<br /><br />The air traffic control failure delayed thousands of flights on the August bank holiday, one of the busiest travel days of the year.
