British Airways cancels flights from London`s Heathrow, Gatwick after IT outage

LONDON British Airways (ICAG.L) said it had canceled all flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports scheduled before 1700 GMT on Saturday due to a global computer outage.

“We have experienced a major IT system failure that is causing very severe disruption to our flight operations worldwide,” the airline said in a statement.

(Reporting by Michael Holden- editing by David Clarke)