A man took a 36-hour bus ride across Europe instead of a 2-hour flight after the UK's air-traffic nightmare ruined his trip home

• Krys Moson found himself stuck in Italy when air traffic control issues caused chaos in UK air space.
• He was told by Ryanair he could either wait until Friday for a flight home, or take a 36-hour coach.

As a technical glitch in the UK's air traffic control operator system continues to cause travel chaos, some people have been turning to TikTok to document their long, delayed journeys home.

One of those travelers is Krys Moson, who was expecting to be on a 2-hour flight from Rimini in Italy back to London on Monday, but was told his flight had been canceled before he even got to the airport.

Moson was told by his airline, Ryanair, that he could either wait until Friday for another flight, or take a series of coaches back to the UK. As he had to be home to get back to work, he chose the latter.

Britain's National Air Traffic Service (NATS) told Insider on Monday it had "applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety" after experiencing a "technical issue" which affected its flight-planning system.

The result was canceled and delayed flights, over-crowded airports, and uncertainty for many who had taken trips abroad over the UK's long weekend.

Moson boarded a coach from Italy to Frankfurt, Germany at around 10 p.m. Monday night. After that he said he would get on another coach to Amsterdam, which would take around 6 hours, where he would get on yet another which would take him to a ferry port, most likely in France, or the channel tunnel, to get back to the UK.

He told Insider he wasn't sure exactly what his plans would be until he got to Amsterdam, and keeping an eye on all the updates was "stressful."

"I am getting a 24-hour bus to Amsterdam and then another bus to get me to England," he said in a TikTok posted on Monday. "I'll spend about one and a half days on buses, nice sweaty coaches, just to get back to England because of all these air traffic control issues."

He said he was "not doing it the easy way" but it was "all part of the fun."

Moson told Insider he chose the coach option, which would take around 36 hours overall, because it was the most affordable, and the most feasible way of him getting home.

"I'm still a bit skeptical when this all the air traffic stuff's going to clear up," he said. "So I figured if I was doing it by land, at least that's not going to affect my journey."

Moson wasn't immune to travel problems, though. His initial coach was delayed by 1.5 hours, then he was hit with further delays at the Austrian border. He said he might struggle to make his connecting bus in Frankfurt as a result.

"Fingers crossed it's all good," he said. "Right now we're seriously behind."

He added that the family that had been sitting opposite him had vacated the coach, so he had a table to himself. "So grateful for that."

When Moson spoke with Insider, he was still on the way to Frankfurt, and was experiencing loud announcements coming through the tannoy right above his head at each stop. "But it's all in Italian, so I don't understand," he said.