FLIGHTS STILL OUT OF THE WINDOWS

>> Travellers stranded after IT meltdown hell >> GP and prescription delays due to backlogs

- PAUL BYRNE

BRITAIN is still reeling from the biggest ever IT meltdown and is facing yet more travel chaos at airports and GP patient backlogs.

And for one woman with brain cancer, Friday's devastating global outage meant her surgery was put back.

More than 8,000 worldwide flights were grounded as a faulty update to CrowdStrike antivirus software crashed Microsoft systems and disabled 8.5 million computers around the globe.

Days later, some UK passengers are still stuck overseas - but airlines have been told they will not have to pay compensation to travellers.

The Civil Aviation Authority said the incident is likely to be viewed as "extraordinary circumstances", for which the industry should not be financially liable.

Yesterday, dozens more flights were cancelled, with bad weather in parts of Europe making the problems worse.

EasyJet scrapped 24 flights at Gatwick and British Airways cancelled a dozen flights to and from the UK at Heathrow.