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Thousands of travelers are still stranded at London’s  Heathrow Airport  due to a global computer system failure causing chaos with about 40 flights cancelled thus far. However, British Airways has resumed some flights from Britain’s two biggest airports after the system failure, with the airline battling to contain the “knock-on disruption” to schedules, with aircraft and crews out of position around the world. British Airways said it was hoping to soon operate a near-normal schedule of flights from Gatwick, London’s other major airport, and the majority of its Heathrow services. The global computer system outage caused massive delays and left planes stuck on runways even as the British Airways said there was no evidence the problem had been caused by a cyber attack. “Please do not come to the airports. We have experienced a major IT system failure that is causing very severe disruption to our flight operations worldwide,” the airline said in a statement yester...