London Heathrow faces baggage challenges after cancellations

London Heathrow Airport are facing baggage handline challenges, after a weekend of storms in Europe have caused delays and cancellations.

Across Europe, the storms led to air traffic control restrictions last week, impacting a possible 10,000 travellers. British Airways had to cancel at least sixty flights, including planes for Toulouse (France) and Milan (Italy).

London City Airport was also affected, with BA grounding flights to Palma (Spain), Glasgow (Scotland) and Berlin (Germany). A similar situation is found at London Gatwick Airport here services to Crete and Agadir (Morrocco) were cancelled.

Due to the cancellations, London Heathrow has a significant amount of baggage that has been separated from passengers, piled up in Terminal 5.

A spokesperson for British Airways told MailOnline: “Like all airlines, we experience disruption to our flights last week due to air traffic control restrictions as a result of adverse weather across the UK and Europe, which was outside of our control.

“Our teams have been working hard to sort, fly and courier the bags of customers impacted by the disruption to them as quickly as possible.”