Thursday newspaper round-up: Airlines, Country Garden, car production

Airlines have urged reform of compensation rules after the “staggering” revelation that a single wrongly input flight plan to UK air traffic control disrupted hundreds of thousands of passengers’ flights. Nats, which controls UK airspace, said “an unusual piece of data” had caused the unprecedented system failure on Monday, which led to more than 1,600 flights being axed and many more delayed. – Guardian

Embattled Chinese developer Country Garden reported a 48.9bn yuan ($6.7bn) loss for the first half of the year in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday, adding to worries of a potentially catastrophic default. Its tenuous state has sparked fears of a collapse that could have far-reaching consequences for the Chinese financial system two years after the fall of Evergrande. – Guardian

More electric vehicles are being made by manufacturers than drivers want, one of Britain’s biggest car dealerships has said. Vertu Motors, which trades under brands including Bristol Street Motors, said supply of new and used electric models is outstripping demand, forcing manufacturers to slash prices in an effort to shift stock. – Telegraph

The bucolic setting of Bletchley Park, the home of British codebreaking operations during the Second World War, is a fitting backdrop to Rishi Sunak’s ambitions to address a new threat: AI. In two months, the Buckinghamshire country estate will host the Prime Minister’s AI Safety Summit, a first of its kind international effort to ensure that the risks of rapidly improving artificial intelligence are addressed. - Telegraph

Car production increased by almost a third last month compared with a year ago, new figures show. The number of cars coming off British assembly lines in July rose 31 per cent, taking factory output in the first seven months of the year to 526,000, up 14 per cent year-on-year. – The Times