British Airways - Massive IT Disruption Worldwide

[chrismscotland]

BA appear to be having a shocker today, massive IT problems seem to have grounded all flights around the world, no flights leaving Gatwick or Heathrow before 18:00 today, not a good Bank Holiday Weekend to be away....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-40069977

I don't envy anyone getting stuck in this!

 

[chrismscotland]

Just reporting that all fights from Gatwick and Heathrow scheduled to depart before 18:00 this evening have been cancelled.

My Mrs. has a flight out of Heathrow at 06:00 tomorrow morning. Hopefully they can sort their **** out before then and there are no massive backlogs.

I'm assuming they can't bump passengers off flights they've booked if previous flights have been cancelled?

I don't believe they can bump folk, not without offering financial compensation anyway. Used to travel weekly and usually found myself getting onto my original flight (after another had been cancelled) without any problem.

 

[chrismscotland]

If its specific to the company then it could affect BA, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling but I've not seen any mention of problems on those other airlines.
However its bound to be impacting a lot of customers who bought their ticket from someone else on code-share i.e bought a ticket from American Airlines but were actually due to be on a BA flight.