Originally Posted by
MANFAN
ATC staff shortage I believe who are of course employed by NATS and not the airport.
We don’t know the reason(s) behind the staff shortage, could be possible sickness for example and there was no time to get another member of staff at short notice.
I wouldn’t be happy as a passenger being diverted especially that time of the morning, however, these type of situations are sometimes unavoidable.
Seems the diverts had some hours advance notice and it wasn’t a sudden closure. Plenty of time for ground transfers to be organised within normal hours .
That said just another round of everything’s broke in the UK these days