British Airways flights in Britain were being delayed and passengers were suffering long waits at airports on Saturday because of a global system outage, the airline said.
« We apologise to customers who are facing some delays following an IT outage this morning, » a BA spokeswoman said. « We are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. »
She gave no further details. Passengers on social media reported long delays and flights by the IAG-owned airline being held on runways, at the start of a long holiday weekend in Britain.
« Still on the tarmac at Leeds. #britishairways reckon Heathrow is so backed up we can’t set off. No way we’ll make our Vegas flight, » one passenger David Raine wrote on Twitter.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Toby Chopra)
