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Air passengers suffered lengthy delays in Britain after a computer glitch hit British Airways check-ins and Black Lives Matter protesters forced their way on to the runway of London City Airport last Tuesday.
上周二，由于英国航空公司登机系统出现电脑故障，Black Lives Matter运动抗议者强行占据伦敦城市机场的起降跑道，导致机场乘客在伦敦经历了长时间滞留。
"Really unhappy with @British_Airways "The system is down. I can't checkin!," said one passenger, Shail, on Twitter.
乘客Shail在推特上说道："真的很不满意英国航空公司，系统出现故障，不能办理登机。"
BA, owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group, apologised to customers and urged passengers to check in online before they reached the airport.
英国航空公司隶属于国际统一航空集团，其向乘客表示了歉意，并敦促乘客在到达机场之前在网上办理登机。
Analysts at RBC said the hold-ups ― the second problem with the service this year ― could damage the airline's reputation.
加拿大皇家银行的一名分析师表示，今年第二大服务问题--机场滞留，可能会有损公司声誉。
At London City Airport, a few miles east of the Canary Wharf financial district, flights to and from its European destinations were delayed after nine protesters locked themselves together on the runway.
伦敦城市机场位于凯纳利码头金融中心以东几英里外，其往返于欧洲各地的航班在9名抗议者占据起降跑道后出现了滞留。
A photograph circulating on Twitter showed the protesters surrounded by police and lying under a wooden tripod.
从推特上一张循环出现的照片中可以看到，抗议者躺在一个木质三脚架下，被警察团团围住。
They had erected two large posters with the slogans "Black Lives Matter" and "Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis".
他们竖起了两张巨大的海报，上面分别写着"黑人的命也是命"和"气候危机及种族危机"。
The British arm of the group, which started in the United States as a reaction to fatal shootings of black people by white U.S. police officers, said it wanted to highlight Britain's environmental impact on the lives of black people locally and globally.
该组织最初在美国成立，是对美国白人警察枪击黑人致死的回应，其英国分部表示，希望凸显英国环境对当地及全球黑人生活的影响。
"Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis," the group said in a statement.
该组织在声明中表示："在这种种族主义危机的大环境下黑人是第一个死的，但却无法优先乘坐飞机，"
"When black people in Britain are 28 percent more likely to be exposed to air pollution than their white counterparts, we know that environmental inequality is a racist crisis."
"28%的英国黑人比白人更可能接触到空气污染，我们知道，环境不平等是一种种族主义危机。"
