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Comment Doing a band-playing, big-bang move of so many flights and services to the new terminal was a fool-hardy move in the first place - they should have trickled stuff into it over six months. It's now late Saturday and there are still problems... [03 Apr 2008]
BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'
News British Airways (BA) confirmed 80 per cent of scheduled flights will be running from T5 today, including all long-haul destinations. Passengers for flights scheduled for today are now able to check in baggage despite this being suspended on... [28 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News British Airways (BA) - the sole airline using T5 - had to cancel 33 flights (departing and arriving) before 14:00(GMT) due to the baggage system problems, although the majority of delayed passengers were moved onto later flights. [27 Mar 2008]
Why did tech ground Heathrow baggage?
News Airport group BAA has still not been able to pinpoint the exact software glitch that left 6,000 British Airways (BA) long-haul passengers unable to take hold luggage on flights. The exact cause of the technical fault that caused two days of luggage... [21 Feb 2008]
Mountain of lost laptops builds at UK airports
News Most likely travellers may be boarding flights out of the UK or they may mistakenly assume their laptop has been stolen rather than lost, given the airport also plays host to "people who make their living stealing bags off trolleys", according to... [01 Sep 2006]
Software glitch hits UK flights
News British Airways alone has cancelled 14 return flights to Europe from Gatwick and Heathrow, according to reports. Short haul flights to Europe appear to be worst hit. A software problem at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) centre in Swanwick... [17 May 2002]
Flight chaos: BA systems still grounded
News Despite claims last week that the problem would be fixed within three days flights were still being delayed today and the company has now admitted the problem will persist into the middle of this week. [19 Mar 2001]
BA in chaos as BABS goes down on angry passengers
News This has meant delayed flights, missed slots, and no end of passenger irritation, according to our source.silicon.com has even heard reports that passengers are having to carry their luggage to the aircraft by hand and give it to the luggage... [16 Mar 2001]
NATS says sorry for air traffic chaos
News Software crash took three and a quarter hours to fix but the resulting backlog of flights took days to sort out. With the system down, operators had to revert to pen and paper to log flights manually. [22 Jun 2000]
Milan airport in systems chaos
News Almost 200 flights have been cancelled since Sunday, with many more rerouted. Systems malfunction and poorly trained staff are being blamed for the chaos that surrounded Sunday's opening of the new West Terminal of Milan's Malpensa international... [27 Oct 1998]
