Airports and airlines across Europe are experiencing technical issues as media companies, banks and telecom firms around the world also reported that system outages were disrupting their operations.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest hubs, is also being affected by a cyber outage, a spokesperson confirmed.
“The outage has an impact on flights flying from and to Schiphol,” he said, adding that it was not yet clear how many flights were affected.
Berlin Brandenberg airport in Germany had halted all flights due to a technical fault, a spokesperson told Reuters.
Earlier, airport operator BER said in a post on social media platform X that check-ins were delayed due to the error.
Ryanair said that it was experiencing network disruption due to a “global third-party outage” amid the wave of technical glitches around the world.
Passengers at Edinburgh Airport in the UK were unable to use automated boarding pass scanners, and monitors at security displayed a message saying “server offline”, a Reuters witness reported.
Boarding passes were being checked manually, the witness said.
London Stansted Airport also said that some airline check-in services are being done manually, but “flights are still operating as normal”.
All Spanish airports impacted by the IT outage, their operator has said.
Three Indian airlines announced disruptions to their booking systems, matching the technical issues reported by flight operators around the world.
Flights grounded by US airlines
Major US airlines ordered ground stops citing communications issues.
American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and Allegiant Air grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several low-cost carriers.
It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off were related to an earlier Microsoft cloud outage.
In Australia, media, banks and telecoms companies suffered outages, which the government said appears to be linked to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.
Crowdsourced website Downdetector showed outages at several banks and telecoms companies.
Crowdstrike ran a recorded phone message when Reuters contacted its technical support saying it was aware of reports of crashes on Microsoft’s Windows operating system relating to its Falcon sensor, without mentioning Australia.
There was no information to suggest the outage was a cyber security incident, the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a post on X.
Australian state broadcaster ABC said it was experiencing a “major network outage”, without giving a reason.
In a pre-recorded message played on Sky News Australia as regular programming was disrupted, correspondent Tom Connell said the outage was not believed to the result of a hack.
“Our computers, our systems are down, all the things that make Sky News run down and indeed for many other major companies around the country,” he said.
In the UK, broadcaster Sky News has apologised to viewers for an “interruption” to its broadcast and said it hopes to restore transmission shortly.
AWS cloud service provider said in a statement that it was “investigating reports of connectivity issues to Windows EC2 instances and Workspaces within AWS.”
It was not immediately clear whether all reported outages were linked to Crowdstrike problems or there were other issues at play.
Article Source – Flights delayed and airports impacted by tech outages – RTE
