Airport web sites break under visitor
pressure
Terror alert chaos causes mass cancellations
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 10 August 2006, 11:41
UK WEB for major airports are returning 404 messages after chaos
caused by an alleged terrorist plot created lengthy queues and
cancellations in the UK.
The Heathrow Airport web site has been unobtainable for much of
this morning, while BAA sites at Gatwick, Luton and Stansted are
also under pressure.
The UK government ordered all hand luggage apart from certain
essential items to be checked in for stowing in plane holds today,
as we reported earlier.
Details of the restrictions imposed are on the Sky News and BBC
websites.
The Metropolitan Police said today that it had foiled a plot to
create "mass murder" by blowing up as many as 10 planes headed from
the UK to the US.
Other disruption at European airports has ensued because incoming
flights to Heathrow have been cancelled until 3PM UK time. British
Airways has already cancelled 200 flights because of the alert and
subsequent delays. The BAA has advised people not to attempt to
travel today unless it is absolutely essential that they do.
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