BA to resume full flights schedule from T5

Heathrow’s Terminal 5 will operate a full schedule of flights on Saturday, British Airways said today.

It will be the first time the terminal has returned to normal operation since its disastrous opening day.

The airline has been forced to cancel scores of flights to take pressure off overloaded baggage handling systems for more than a week.

Today the airline cancelled 34 flights, an improvement on the previous two days when more than 50 services did not fly.

But they are now confident that they can deal with the extra traffic and will operate 100% of their planned flights from the terminal at the weekend.