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Heathrow Airport: Baggage system failure passengers may ‘travel without their bags’

by June 15, 2017

written by 15^th Jun 17 9:31 am

Travel misery

Passenger travelling out of terminals three and five from Heathrow Airport may have to “travel without their bags” and are being advised “to pack essential items in their hand luggage,” Heathrow Airport has said.

Other terminals are unaffected and flights to the US and Europe are affected, airlines that are affected are British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia.

It was only three weeks ago that British Airways had a catastrophic global IT outage that affected thousands of passengers.

Heathrow Airport are investigating why baggage failure has happened and are working to resolve the situation.

They said in a tweet:

pic.twitter.com/xGTBlo8nLE

— Heathrow Airport (@HeathrowAirport) June 15, 2017

In an updated tweet they said this:

An important update following an issue with baggage systems at Heathrow earlier this morning. pic.twitter.com/nAMXaKV11Q

— Heathrow Airport (@HeathrowAirport) June 15, 2017