British Airways flights grounded after ‘major IT outage’

British Airways has been deed by an IT outage which is reportedly causing immense queues astatine Heathrow.

The airline’s website appeared to person gone down soon aft 6pm erstwhile occupation reports surged connected Downdetector.

As good arsenic taking down the lawsuit website, the IT strategy meltdown means planes are incapable to instrumentality off, phone lines are down and pilots are successful the dark, The Times reports citing a source.

Queues are reportedly gathering astatine Heathrow Terminal 5 owed to the problem, the outlet reports.

The BA website is presently incapable to load, with a invited substance saying ‘We are experiencing precocious request connected ba.com astatine the moment. Thank you for your patience.’

Frustrated passengers took to societal media to vent their choler aft the glitch.

One rider claimed an full level afloat of radical is ‘being made to basal connected the tarmac successful a precise acold Verona waiting for an already delayed flight.’

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