Italian airports controller fixes network failure that caused flight delays

ROME, Oct ‌16 (Reuters) - Air ​travellers ​faced delays and cancellations across Italy on Friday ‌due to a technical fault ⁠affecting air traffic control, which authorities ‌said was not ‌caused by sabotage of any type and was fixed later ​in the day.

Air traffic control company ENAV said it ⁠introduced temporary restrictions on air traffic capacity ​after detecting anomalies overnight on the data transmission network supporting ​air traffic services ‌nationwide.

As of around 1000 GMT, aviation analytics company ⁠Cirium counted 192 cancellations, and found that only around 31% of ⁠flights from Italian airports had departed ​on time, falling to 25% at Milan's Malpensa and 28% at Rome's Fiumicino.

ENAV ‌said at around 1325 GMT it had managed ‌to restore full operational capacity.

(Reporting ⁠by Alvise ‌Armellini and ​Gianluca Lo Nostro, Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Gavin ‌Jones)

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