DHAKA: Heathrow Airport cancelled 38 flights on Saturday as it recovered from a computer glitch that wreaked havoc with the London airport system, the world’s busiest hub.

‘There are 38 flights cancelled today as a result of yesterday (computer fault),’ said a Heathrow spokesman, adding that 1,300 flights were scheduled Saturday to and from the airport.

‘But we started up very well this morning, so I'm hoping after that we’ll get back to normal,’ he said, adding that most of the cancellations were caused by air crews becoming stuck in the wrong place.

He urged passengers to check with their airlines before going to the airport.

A computer failure at the state-of-the-art £700-million Swanwick control centre near Portsmouth on the southern English coast briefly shut down Britain's skies on Friday, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2159 HRS, DEC 13, 2014