They made the decision to return home to Italy. The incident comes as the British flag carrier announces it will cancel tens of thousands of flights into the winter schedule. BA will be taking nearly two million seats out of the market, on both short-haul and intercontinental flights, from late October 2022 to late March 2023. A British Airways spokesperson told The Independent : "We apologised to our customers for the delay to their journey due to a technical issue with one of our aircraft.