Sir Richard Branson has today told Good Morning Britain that airlines should have to pay compensation to passengers affected by widespread flight delays – even though it was a mistake by air traffic control. 

The billionaire Virgin Group president was interviewed on Good Morning Britain and said the problem was “ridiculous”, while thousands of passengers are stuck in airports across the world. 

This comes after more than 200 flights in and out of the UK were cancelled on Tuesday, following Monday’s air traffic control chaos.

Multiple airlines have had to cancel flights, Ryanair, Jet2, easyJet and British Airways have all cancelled flights as disruption from the “technical failure” continues.

easyJet has cancelled more than 80 flights with 36 of the affected journeys from Gatwick Airport. Edinburgh, Manchester and Luton are also affected.

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