Heathrow's Terminal 5 will operate a full schedule of flights on Saturday, British Airways has said.
It will be the first time the terminal returns to normal operation since its disastrous opening day.
The airline has been forced to cancel scores of flights to take pressure off overloaded baggage handling systems for more than a week.
The airline cancelled 34 flights on Thursday, an improvement on the previous two days when more than 50 services did not fly.
But they are now confident that they can deal with the extra traffic and will operate 100% of their planned flights from the terminal at the weekend.
A spokeswoman for BA said that the weekend schedule is less busy than the weekday timetable.
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advertisementBut passengers travelling this Saturday will be hoping that there is no repeat of the problems that brought the terminal to a standstill.
Snaking queues built up rapidly as the high-tech computerised baggage handling system ground to a halt.
On the evening of the opening day the airline was forced to admit that passengers could no longer be accepted for travel with their bags. Most chose not to abandon their belongings and were forced to find hotel rooms or bed down in the airport for the night.
Baggage handlers are still sorting through 14,000 pieces of luggage lost in the chaos as flights took off with passengers but no bags on board.
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