British Airways cancels more than 175 flights as IT failure enters second day

Reports of clogged motorways add to news of travel chaos on bank holiday forecast to be busiest since pandemic

British Airways has cancelled more than 175 flights as the fallout from an IT failure entered its second day, fuelling predictions of widespread travel disruption at the start of a bank holiday weekend forecast to be the busiest since before the pandemic.

As motorists hit the roads, encouraged by forecasts of sunny and warm weather at the start of the school half-term holidays, reports of clogged motorways were already emerging on Friday afternoon.