BA cancels all flights from London airports
British Airways cancelled all its flights out of major London airports Heathrow and Gatwick yesterday after an IT systems failure, leaving hundreds stranded on a busy holiday weekend.
BA flights out of Heathrow and Gatwick were initially cancelled until 6.00 pm UK time (1700 GMT) but the airline later said there would be no flights for the rest of the day.
It said it had found "no evidence that it's a cyberattack", with Britain still recovering from a ransomware attack that crippled key infrastructure earlier this month.
"We are working hard to get our customers who were due to fly today onto the next available flights over the course of the rest of the weekend," BA said, adding that its call centres and website were also affected.
The outage comes on a busy holiday weekend in Britain, where Monday is a public holiday and many schoolchildren are beginning their half-term break.
BA said that those unable to fly would be offered a full refund, warning that some delays and disruption could continue into today.
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