"We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this is causing our customers and we are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible." The problems, which passengers said had affected flights across Britain, came on a particularly busy weekend with a public holiday on Monday and many children starting their school half-term breaks. All the affected passengers were corralled through a single gate so they could go back through border checks and then re-book flights. Last month Germany's Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) and Air France (AIRF.PA) suffered a global system outage which prevented them from boarding passengers. Another, journalist Martyn Kent, wrote: "Sat on plane at Heathrow for hour and a half now.

Source: Standard Digital May 27, 2017 16:07 UTC