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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