PEOPLE have been urged to check before they travel amid air traffic control (ATC) problems.

Travel disruption could last for days after flights were cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded during a technical fault in the UK's ATC system.

Tens of thousands more airline passengers suffered flight cancellations on Tuesday due to the knock-on impact of the fault.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said it was the worst incident of its kind in “nearly a decade” and announced an “independent review” will be carried out.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said it was the worst incident of its kind in "nearly a decade" and announced an "independent review" will be carried out.

The issue started on Monday after a technical glitch meant flight plans had to be input manually by controllers, causing more than a quarter of departures and arrivals to be axed.

ATC provider National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered what it described as a “technical issue” preventing it from automatically processing flight plans.

This resulted in flights to and from UK airports being restricted while the plans were checked manually.

Nats said at 3.15pm on Monday the problem was resolved, but disruption continued into Tuesday as many aircraft and crews were out of position.

The problems also resulted in a number of flights leaving from LBA to a host of European destinations being cancelled as the problems spilt over into a second day.

Leeds Bradford Airport urged all passengers to check with their airlines before travelling.

Telegraph & Argus readers have been stuck at destinations across Europe due to the problems.

One person said they were stuck in Crete, while another wrote: "Stuck in Turkey, was supposed to fly home yesterday (August 28) at 3pm. They eventually put us in a hotel at midnight... now have a flight at 4pm today."

Another person spoke of a 12-hour delay at LBA on Monday.

The departure board at LBA on Tuesday showed a number of cancelled flights, with passengers urged to contact their affected airlines.

According to the online LBA departures board, the 6.15am flight to Arrecife in Lanzarote, was cancelled, along with the 7am flight to Thessaloniki, Greece, and the 7.35am departure to Split, Croatia.

The 11.15am flight to Heraklion, Greece, was cancelled, as well as the 2.10pm flight to Jersey.

Meanwhile, the 6.50am flight to Faro, Portugal, was delayed until 11.30am, while the 7.20am flight to Alicante was not expected to leave until 3.30pm.

The 5pm flight to Las Palmas was also due to be delayed.

Jet2 and Ryanair, which both operate daily flights to a host of destinations to and from LBA, have given updates on their flight situations on social media.

One traveller, Rory Dollard, 40, a Skipton-based cricket correspondent for PA Media, was stuck at Bergerac Dordogne Perigord airport in France and was told it may take up to six days before he and his family his wife Joanne, 40, and children Emily, 10, and Arthur, eight, could return home.