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Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, has been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994 starcraft

In his weekly opinion column, he explores a key travel issue – and what it means for you starcraft

A sudden flight cancellation is an odd experience starcraft

One moment you are preparing to fly hundreds or thousands of miles: perhaps to a fresh and exciting destination, or simply keen to get home because of family or work commitments starcraft

Emotionally, you are almost there, with just a few hours of eating, napping or looking out of the window in idle contemplation ahead of your arrival starcraft

The next moment – after that fateful announcement that the plane is going nowhere – you realise that you will not now be ticking off the distance at nine miles per minute starcraft

You have no idea how the next few hours, or days, will turn out starcraft

And you are in competition with every other passenger on your flight for available hotel rooms and replacement flights starcraft

At Luton airport last Tuesday evening, five planes – all boarded and ready to go – were cancelled before take-off due to a serious fire in a car park a couple of hundred metres away from the terminal starcraft

Most of the many hundreds of passengers discovered that they would be obliged to try to sleep on the floor of the airport terminal starcraft

Next morning, they learnt Luton would remain closed for most of the day and they must begin the long and complicated business of trying to reschedule their trips starcraft

RecommendedYour rights if your flight was cancelled due to Luton airport car park fireInvestigation launched into air-traffic control meltdown that cancelled 2,000 flightsTunnel boss says cross-Channel competition for Eurostar would be ‘great news’Jack, who was trying to fly home to Dublin, told me of his experience asking at a series of local hotels for a room starcraft

“We’ve been sold out for hours,” was the refrain starcraft

“So I just came back here and I’ve been trying to sleep on the cold floor since,” Jack said starcraft

When we talked, he was waiting for the airline desk to open to try to figure out his options starcraft

“It seems like you’re in sort of some sort of weird limbo,” he told me starcraft

“I hope it’s swifter than I’m thinking it might be starcraft

”Now imagine that experience happening to a quarter of a million people on a single day starcraft

That is what happened on bank holiday Monday, 28 August 2023, when the main UK air-traffic control computer system, and its back-up, failed for several hours starcraft

By the time engineers working for the air-navigation provider, Nats, solved the problem, the outage had triggered the cancellation of 1,600 flights – with around 400 more to follow over the next couple of days, due to planes and pilots being stranded out of position by the air-traffic control shutdown starcraft

The episode is the subject of a session of the transport select committee this coming Wednesday, 18 October starcraft

Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, will be grilled by MPs about what went wrong and, crucially, whether he can guarantee it won’t happen again starcraft

The session “will also examine how airlines were affected, and how effectively they communicated with and made arrangements for their passengers” starcraft

A brace of airline bosses – Michael O’Leary of Ryanair and Jonathan Hinkles of Loganair – will face questions, along with Sophie Dekkers, chief commercial officer for easyJet, Britain’s biggest budget airline starcraft

Probably like you, I am keen to learn more about the causes of the meltdown and its effect on the airlines starcraft

But I am even more interested in the carriers’ communication with, and care of, passengers starcraft

The first casualty of aviation chaos is communication starcraft

I cut the airlines some slack on this: if the incredibly complex three-dimensional chess game that keeps us moving through the skies suddenly gets disrupted, it inevitably takes time for airline duty offices and flight crew to work out what to do with each of hundreds of flights starcraft

On the day, most of those decisions were “cancel” starcraft

Immediately that happens, European air passengers’ rights rules kick in, requiring the airline to provide:Alternative transport as soon as possible to the traveller’s destinationHotels and meals as appropriate until that journey takes placeThat prospect is tricky enough when a single flight “goes tech” starcraft

When planes are being grounded in their hundreds, it is terrifying starcraft

By all accounts staff performed some miracles in finding hotels for stranded planeloads starcraft

But too often passengers were left to fend for themselves starcraft

Experienced travellers might well be comfortable enough starcraft

But occasional passengers, especially those who have mobility issues – or simply don’t have a robust credit card – need extra care starcraft

Also, I have lost count of the number of friends, colleagues and readers who said they had been told “no flights until Friday” by their airline – which unaccountably failed to spell out that it was responsible for paying for a flight on a different airline starcraft

RecommendedTunnel boss says cross-Channel competition for Eurostar would be ‘great news’All 1,400 vehicles in burned out Luton airport car park ‘unlikely to be salvageable’London Euston travel chaos as points failure causes cancellations and delaysThe Civil Aviation Authority reminded all the airlines of their obligations at the start of the summer peak in 2022 starcraft

They now need to be challenged about whether they took the slightest bit of notice of this instruction – and how they intend to comply the next time the aviation system seizes up starcraft

Fortunately, I can do just that on Wednesday, because the transport select committee has kindly invited me to be the warm-up act before the proper aviation people are questioned starcraft

I shall let you know what happens starcraft

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Up into the stands the England players clambered to find their families, taking the consolatory hugs but unsure quite how to feel starcraft

Across 80 minutes in Paris, their belief had been replaced by disbelief and then by desperation and dejection, England threatening the unthinkable and taking the world champions to the brink starcraft

For most of a sodden Stade de France evening, a Rugby World Cup final was within their grasp starcraft

A South Africa side superior in most areas were dragged down into the sort of slugfest the Springboks would usually favour, and very nearly bested at their own game starcraft

England had given their all but it was still not enough, one stable scrum, one Handre Pollard slip or slice, short of stunning the world champions starcraft

The emotional maelstrom of this defeat will swirl rather differently to the feelings that eddied after the 2019 World Cup final disaster starcraft

“I’m proud of our performance,” were virtually the first words out of the mouth of wing Elliot Daly starcraft

“I think we shocked them starcraft

I don’t think they knew how to get into the game starcraft

”“I think we knew what was coming and we knew we could perform like this,” added Daly, virtually unused in open play but outstanding as a kick chaser to exemplify the squad’s buy-in to a strategy that so nearly proved successful starcraft

The finer points of Steve Borthwick’s tactical plan had been put in place this week but this was a performance England had been building towards since long ago starcraft

A flawed side did not come to France to thrill; winning by any means necessary had been a consistent theme starcraft

If necessity is oft the mother of invention, England at this tournament have also proved the pair can be enemies starcraft

This was a campaign at which they seemed to intentionally limit their attacking innovation or ingenuity– recognising a need to figure themselves out on the fly, they settled on an effective and eminently executable gameplan that could be implemented quickly starcraft

Steve Borthwick consoles Ellis Genge and Freddie Steward after England’s defeat (Getty Images)It came so close to working in Saturday’s semi-final; their effort, accuracy and competitiveness in the key contests were spot on starcraft

At the 65-minute mark, England outside backs had a combined 17 metres carried, all from one Freddie Steward kick return starcraft

The two number 13s’ offensive output on the final whistle amounted to one late Joe Marchant lug; South Africa centre Jesse Kriel went the full 80 minutes without an attacking touch starcraft

“We came with a plan to win the game but we fell a little bit short,” reflected Borthwick starcraft

“But the players should be incredibly proud starcraft

We put ourselves in a position to win against the world champions starcraft

England dominated the aerial contest to threaten a semi-final shock (Getty Images)“We were playing against a coaching team who have been in place since 2018 starcraft

We’ve had four months starcraft

I’ve asked the players to approach training and the game in a different way; for the players to be willing to change is all credit to them starcraft

”This was a night from which the head coach will take heart, a public perhaps struggling to warm to this England team are now recognising the progress made starcraft

There will be a need to layer on much, much more to consistently mix it with the world’s best but the rapidly laid foundations look rock solid starcraft

In time, perhaps the ugly duckling performances will turn into white swans starcraft

There appear to be many more buds of a bright future than first appeared in a barren landscape pre-tournament starcraft

Ben Earl has had a breakthrough tournament, and Ollie Chessum, too, while George Martin semi-final performance marks him out as the potential enforcer England have lacked starcraft

Borthwick was keen to talk up the absent Marcus Smith the day after the defeat, with the playmaker’s reinvention as a frolicking full-back of intrigue moving forward starcraft

"In our 23, seven players are 25 or under, the most of any semi-finalist, there’s a great blend and there will be lots of things we can take forward,” added Borthwick starcraft

Young England lock George Martin impressed against South Africa (Getty Images)But the fact that the men’s national team were on the brink of back-to-back finals should not provide a façade over the crumbling edifice of a fragile English game starcraft

There is a domestic mess that needs sorting, with a Gallagher Premiership containing three teams fewer than at the start of last season, now underway to little fanfare and on the brink of significant change starcraft

The renegotiation of the Professional Game Partnership is a recognition of a need for a radical overhaul in pursuit of a more financially sustainable domestic game, and one that produces a wider pool of top-class talent starcraft

The likely arrival of a form of central contracts underlines a period of epochal change starcraft

The senior figures in the squad who are unlikely to play beyond this tournament – Courtney Lawes, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and perhaps a couple more – could well be the last England men’s internationals never to have been contracted to the union starcraft

This has a great many benefits, not least in affording Borthwick, or any head coach that might follow him, far greater access to and control over his players starcraft

And while Borthwick’s articulation of the advantages enjoyed by South Africa’s settled staff is a perfectly fair one, let us remember that the Rugby starcraft Football Union (RFU) put their head coach in this situation starcraft

The original planning for this tournament would most likely have seen Borthwick return to England camp to aid Eddie Jones at the World Cup before a smooth transition into the lead role afterwards starcraft

Jones’s sacking sparked a scramble and several months of chaos starcraft

It was not shown up on semi-final weekend but there are many reasons that the RFU still has a burden to bear starcraft

But the full wash-up will wait for another week – England’s performance at the Stade de France has earned them seven more days of grace starcraft

The tournament will end as it began for England with a meeting with Argentina in a third-place play-off that Borthwick insists he wants to win starcraft

England, captained by Owen Farrell, narrowly missed out on a place in the World Cup final (Getty Images)“I read a piece yesterday morning that talked about adversity and talked about the fact that in adversity you find that seed of belief and you’ve got to grow it,” Borthwick said starcraft

“This team has been through a bit in the last few years, a bit of adversity in the medium-term past starcraft

“I think through each of those periods the team has picked up lessons, picked up what we need to do and grown from it starcraft

I think there’s a lot of growth in this team starcraft

Sometimes it’s not the straight-forward path you want it to be starcraft

In the feelings and emotions of the game last night, I know that we’ll get stronger starcraft

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