Technical issue at British Airways causes some flight cancellations at Heathrow

Technical issue at British Airways causes some flight cancellations at Heathrow

Technical issue at British Airways causes some flight cancellations at Heathrow

ICAG-owned British Airways mentioned that it needed to cancel some flights at London’s Heathrow Airport as a result of a technical challenge on Thursday, with out disclosing the variety of affected flights.

The airport had earlier mentioned that the airline was working to resolve a technical challenge with plenty of its techniques, which had affected a number of departing and arriving flights.

A report by The Independent newspaper mentioned that at the very least 50 flights have been affected as a result of an IT downside.

British Airways mentioned {that a} majority of its flights continued to function on Thursday, including that affected prospects had been contacted and supplied choices, together with a refund or rebooking to another flight with the airline or one other service.

The British airline has been affected by different IT issues in recent times together with a serious pc system failure in 2017 that stranded 75,000 passengers over a vacation weekend, sparking a public relations catastrophe and pledges from the service that it might do higher in future. — Reuters

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