A reported major IT glitch for British Airways has meant pilots were unable to file flight plans electronically, and had to manually call into the operations centre at Heathrow

British Airways faced an IT issue on Monday evening, resulting in a loss of communication with its pilots and significant operational disruption. As flights began to get delayed both in and out of the UK,

The airline last suffered a major outage last year, with more than 175 flights canceled. In December 2022 a large number of long-haul flights were impacted by a different outage. Short-haul flights were grounded earlier that year, during a lengthy and disruptive outage in February.