Wednesday, October 23

British Airways cancels dozens of Heathrow flights after ‘technical concern’

British Airways cancelled dozens of flights out and in of Heathrow Airport on Thursday night due to a “technical issue”, leaving hundreds of passengers grounded.

Just earlier than 9pm, the London airport’s reside departures and arrivals web site confirmed 79 providers had been cancelled.

This was regardless of the airline saying the issues had been resolved as they tried to get schedules again to regular.

In an earlier assertion, it mentioned: “While the majority of our flights have continued to operate today, we have had to cancel a number of Heathrow flights due to a technical issue.

“Affected clients have been contacted and supplied choices, together with a refund or rebooking to an alternate flight with us or one other service. We are extraordinarily sorry to our clients for the inconvenience precipitated.”

It’s understood the corporate is making an attempt to rebook clients on to different providers the place doable.

Sorina Anastasiu – a 33-year-old recruiter residing in London – was on account of get married in her native Romania in June, however she will not make it.

The legislation there requires {couples} to have their marriage rubber stamped 14 days earlier than the marriage, so she was flying residence to finish the varieties.

She instructed Sky News: “You have to complete these forms 14 days before and I definitely can’t do that now. So I’ve missed my wedding, basically. I had a bit of a breakdown about it earlier.”

“It’s been a really, really tough day. I’ve been here since three o’clock so it’s been five hours now. I was supposed to fly to Romania because I’m getting married and needed to get paperwork done.

“Our appointment was tomorrow. Now, I am unable to get a flight till Saturday. The worst factor is that I’ve already checked in they usually requested me to test my hand baggage, which has my ceremony gown inside it.

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“Nobody can get their checked luggage back and there’s nobody to help. There’s just one landline phone in arrivals marked ‘luggage enquiries’ and that’s the only way of contacting the baggage crew.

“All I’ve on me is my cellphone and my pockets. It’s insanely irritating.

“It’s very poorly managed. I mean, my situation isn’t life or death, but there are elderly people here, people who hardly speak English…There are people here who’ve got their medication in their bags and they can’t access them.

“The employees are saying they’re going to reimburse us for motels, however individuals don’t have anything on them – no garments, nothing, so they do not wish to depart. It’s heartbreaking to see these individuals struggling within the airport with no one to assist them.”

Content Source: information.sky.com