“Flights are operating and we’ll finish our schedule this evening as planned. No cancellations. Some delays. All of our critical operations are running,” BA said in a statement.
Downdetector, a website that logs complaints with websites that are not working, indicated a sharp increase in problems with the BA site after 17:00.
It is not clear how widespread the disruption is, but it is reported to have affected flights globally, as well as some domestic UK flights.
The travel expert and journalist Simon Calder estimated the problems could be affecting tens of thousands of passengers, although the delays seem to be limited to one to two hours for affected flights.
One passenger wrote on X that they were “being made to stand on the tarmac in a very cold Verona waiting for an already delayed flight”.
Travellers in Hamburg, Naples and Dusseldorf also reported delays.
