British Airways to resume most flights from London

AFP, LONDON: British Airways said it hopes to resume most flights out of London’s major airports on yesterday after a computer systems failure caused chaos for thousands of passengers on a busy holiday weekend. It warned of some “knock-on disruption” to schedules as aircraft and crews are out of position around the world. “At this stage we are aiming to operate a near-normal schedule of flights from Gatwick and the majority of our Heathrow services,” it said in a statement.
It advised passengers not to come to the two airports unless they have confirmed bookings. BA cancelled all its flights out of Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday after the IT failure, which shut down all of the carrier’s check-in and operational systems and affected call centres and its website. However it did not appear to be a cyber-attack, according to a video statement by chairman and chief executive Alex Cruz. Britain is still recovering from a ransomware attack that crippled crucial infrastructure earlier this month.

 

British Airways to resume most flights from London

AFP, LONDON: British Airways said it hopes to resume most flights out of Londons major airports on yesterday after a computer systems failure caused chaos for thousands of passengers on a busy holiday weekend. It warned of some knock-on disruption to schedules as aircraft and crews are out of position around the world. At this stage we are aiming to operate a near-normal schedule of flights from Gatwick and the majority of our Heathrow services, it said in a statement. It advised passengers not to come to the two airports unless they have confirmed bookings. BA cancelled all its flights out of Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday after the IT failure, which shut down all of the carriers check-in and operational systems and affected call centres and its website. However it did not appear to be a cyber-attack, according to a video statement by chairman and chief executive Alex Cruz. Britain is still recovering from a ransomware attack that crippled crucial infrastructure earlier this month.