American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and Allegiant Air grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved its cloud services outage.
LONDON − Major airlines, media companies, banks and telecoms firms around the world reported systems outages Friday that were their disrupting their operations.
In the U.S., American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines were among those who grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved a cloud-services-related outage that impacted several low-cost carriers.
It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off was related to the Microsoft cloud outage. The Washington state-based tech giant did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
British broadcaster Sky News went off-air and train companies in the U.K. reported long delays. Departure boards at several U.K. airports appeared to freeze, according to passengers who posted reports on social media.
London’s Stock Exchange also reported experiencing disruptions.
In Australia, media, banks and telecoms companies suffered outages, which the government said appeared to be linked to an issue at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike did not did not immediately return a comment request. However, it played a recorded phone message when the Reuters news agency contacted its technical support saying it was aware of reports of crashes on Microsoft’s Windows operating system relating to a sensor.
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.
The outages rippled far and wide.
Spanish authorities reported a “computer incident” at all its airports.
Berlin’s main airport said check-ins were delayed because of a “technical fault.”
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, warned passengers of potential disruptions which it said would affect “all airlines operating across the Network.” It did not specify the nature of the disruptions.
Contributing: Reuters
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