More than 200 Heathrow flights grounded after ‘technical issue’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Flights to and from Heathrow continue to be disrupted after the airport was hit by a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;technical issue”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At least 58 of the day’s arrivals – equivalent to 9&percnt; – were cancelled due to the knock-on effect of the problem&comma; which emerged on Sunday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A further 30 departing flights were also grounded from what is the UK’s busiest airport&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All the flights affected on Monday were operated by British Airways&comma; which is the largest airline at the west London hub&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Sunday&comma; some 73 departures and 60 arrivals from various carriers were cancelled&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The problems at Heathrow compounded the misery for UK air passengers after Storm Dennis caused hundreds of cancellations over the weekend at the start of the half-time getaway&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EasyJet’s schedules were heavily reduced&comma; with flights grounded at airports such as Gatwick&comma; Luton and Bristol&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Heathrow apologised for the disruption and said extra staff had been drafted in to help with directing people to their gates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The situation at the airport on Sunday was described on Twitter by one passenger as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;utter chaos”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jenny Nielsen tweeted pictures of whiteboards displaying handwritten flight numbers and destinations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Computer systems down at Heathrow&period; No electronic tickets allowed&comma; delays &amp&semi; no flight information on screens … Oh Blighty&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Heathrow spokesman said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Following yesterday’s technical issue&comma; Heathrow’s systems are stable and the airport is operating as normal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We apologise for the inconvenience this caused our passengers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our teams continue to closely monitor our systems and will be on hand across our terminals to provide assistance to passengers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A British Airways spokeswoman said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The technical issue with Heathrow Airport’s systems has now been resolved but&period; after 10 hours of disruption across all terminals&comma; we do expect to see a knock-on effect to today’s short-haul schedule&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’ve introduced a flexible booking policy and have brought in extra colleagues to help our customers get on their way as smoothly as possible&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ce90393f0d8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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