British Airways passengers suffered delays following a systems outage at the airline’s main operations center in Heathrow that prevented communication with aircraft across the region.

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 has been hit by an IT outage which is reportedly causing huge queues at Heathrow. The airline’s website appeared to have gone down shortly after 6pm when problem reports surged on Downdetector.