British Airways flights GROUNDED as IT meltdown leaves ‘thousands of passengers’ stranded

SEVERAL British Airways flights person been grounded aft an IT meltdown.

Passengers began reporting issues astatine astir 5pm with galore stuck onboard BA planes waiting for clearance to instrumentality off.

The contented was reportedly caused by an IT glitch which impacted the company's software.

Flight tracking app Flight Emergency posted connected X: "British Airways person mislaid each Communications to craft astir Europe owed to an IT outage.

"Flights volition beryllium managed by Heathrow aerial postulation power to get inbound flights backmost to base.' "