At Milan Malpensa Airport, check-in and Gate checks are carried out manually with the paper passenger list in hand and the check mark, boarding passes – better for those who have printed it – and identification documents are presented. And it is already a long time for the flight to take off, because they are all over the world Thousands of flights have been delayed or even cancelledwith significant inconvenience for travelers, especially now that we are on the eve of the weekend and summer holidays.
The global IT crash that is blocking airports – but also banks and many other digital services – all over the world is bringing airports and airlines, but also the transport system in general, to its knees. Spain For example, the Tasteless motorway system was also affected.
Thousands of notifications were received by passengers departing this morning London to Singapore from the United States to Australia and anyone registered on the social profiles of airlines and airports. Messages like “We apologize for the inconvenience, we are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible” are coming from all official accounts.
The cause of inconvenience at airports
The cyberattack seems to have been avoided. It would be the fault of Microsoft cyber outage which would have caused the crash of all Windows systems. The cause would therefore be a malfunction of Microsoft platforms which is implementing “mitigation actions” to stem the problem.
At airports, the outage of Google Cloud services has led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights. According to the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), American Airlines has grounded all of its planes due to communication issues. United Airlines has also announced that it has suspended its flights, while Delta recommends checking the status of your flight on the airline’s app. The same situation applies to hundreds of airlines around the world. At Schwechat Airport, a Vienna The system crash made even check-in impossible, as at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, several carriers including Qantas, Hk Express and Spring Japan reported problems.
Ryanair advised its customers to arrive at the airport three hours early due to network problems.
However, airlines recommend monitoring your flight status on the appropriate portals.
The situation in Italian airports
Him too Rome Airports communicated that “although their systems have not been impacted, delays and/or cancellations are occurring on departing and arriving flights due to a global problem with the IT systems”. Some flights arriving at Orio al Serio airport have landed a few hours late. However, the situation is under control: Sacbo, the company that manages the airport, has resorted to a local management system to overcome the general blockage. Turin’s Caselle airport has communicated on its social networks that “due to a global malfunction of some IT systems, acceptance procedures could be delayed”, while delays in check-in operations as well as in air traffic are occurring at the airports of Bari and Brindisi.