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How many flights cancelled?
The story mentions approximately 399 flights arriving at and departing from the UK were cancelled on Wednesday due to the Nats technical fault. This number gives a sense of the immediate scale of disruption caused by the incident, affecting hundreds of thousands of individual journeys and highlighting the ripple effect of such a widespread issue.
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