Flights at Birmingham Airport have been temporarily suspended due to an air traffic control fault.
The airport is subsequently advising passengers to check with their airlines regarding flight departures and arrivals on their website.
A spokesperson stated that staff are now working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, they said
Passengers are advised to check with their airline regarding flight departures and arrivals. We apologise for the inconvenience this is causing to our passengers.
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One plane travelling from Amsterdam to Birmingham is running at least an hour behind schedule and after being forced to circle above the runway.
The issue comes just 24 hours after Gatwick Airport was shutdown as a result of drone activity in the area.
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More than 140,000 people had their flights cancelled or delayed after the aerial vehicles were spotted over 60 times.
Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were arrested in connection to the drones but have since been released without charge.
A damaged drone was later discovered close to the airport, with Sussex and Surrey Police including it in their investigation.
However, DCI Jason Tingley revealed that the drone responsible for hundreds of cancelled or diverted Gatwick flights might not have even existed.
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We are also going through many reports of sightings of drone activity over the last few days, he said.
We are meticulously going through that information to see if that produces any other further lines of inquiry, and also where we may focus our efforts in terms of house-to-house inquiries, CCTV footage, and any other information that will help us work through this investigation.
He added that there was always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place, but that officers were working on a range of information from members of the public, police officers and Gatwick staff who had said otherwise.
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