More than 2,000 flights have been cancelled after an air traffic control(空中交通管制) system failure that has thrown airports across the UK into chaos(混乱). Nats(英国空管公司), the air traffic control provider, fixed the problem within hours on Tuesday, but hundreds of thousands of passengers were hit by further delays and cancellation(取消)s on Wednesday.
空中交通管制系统故障导致英国各地机场陷入混乱，超过2000架次航班取消。空管服务提供商Nats于周二数小时内修复了问题，但周三仍有数十万乘客遭遇进一步的延误和取消。
Martin Rolfe, the chief executive(首席执行官) of Nats, has been given a week to report back on(就……汇报) the reasons for the technical failure(技术故障).
Nats首席执行官马丁·罗尔夫被要求在一周内就技术故障的原因提交报告。
People affected by the disruption(中断，扰乱) talked about their frustration(沮丧，懊恼) during the two days of chaos – from hours spent stuck on planes(被困在飞机上) waiting to take off(起飞), to spending the night sleeping on the floor of Heathrow airport. Here are some of their experiences:
受此次中断影响的人们讲述了他们在两天混乱中的沮丧经历——从被困在飞机上等待起飞数小时，到在希思罗机场的地板上过夜。以下是他们的一些经历：
‘People were sleeping on every spare inch of flooring’
“人们睡在地板的每一寸空地上”
‘We were left to our own devices’
“我们只能自己想办法”
‘It’s Kafkaesque’
“这太卡夫卡了”
‘We have also lost two days of our trip’
“我们还损失了两天的行程”