LONDON HOTELS GOUGE STRANDED AIR PASSENGERS

LONDON Hotels charged extortionate prices to stranded British Airways passengers after an IT failure on Saturday forced the airline to cancel all flights from London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.

The Telegraph reported some hotels were charging $1,700 to $4,300 a room.

British Airways blamed the IT failure on a power supply issue said there was no sign it was under cyberattack. The airline had hoped to operate a “near normal schedule” at the airports Sunday, but thousands of travellers were still facing confusion and cancelled flights.