From Sky News website
Air fares are set to increase further as the UK aviation authority has upped the costs airline pay to fund air traffic control.
Each plane will have to pay an additional £17 a journey after the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) increased the contribution from £47 to £64 per aircraft.
It follows hundreds of flight cancellations and long delays in August as the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) reported a "technical issue" which affected its flight planning system. An independent review into the events is taking place.
Another chicken comes home to roost. If you consistently underfund a critical computer system, failing to take the plunge to upgrade to new software - it will fail and (usually) horribly.
What is irritating about this is - it appears - that the fee increase is just to pay off the airlines. At some ppoint they are going to have to fix the problem...