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Reports are coming in from across the globe, that airports are being plunged into chaos after a worldwide IT meltdown. So far delays are being reported and massive lines forming in at many major airports as passengers’ encounter problems at check-in. Although little is known about the cause of the meltdown, it is being attributed to a failure of the global Check-in system Amadeus Altea. The system is used by 125 airlines around the world including some of the biggest names in aviation including Qatar and Qantas. Earlier this morning Qantas reported major disruptions in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra.
While reports are still coming in about which airports are affected, so far Charles de Gaulle Paris, Washington DC, London Gatwick, Baltimore, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Zurich, and Changi in Singapore have all reported problems. In addition, there have been minor delays at London Heathrow as well as reports of large lines forming at Hong Kong airport, as well as Haneda in Tokyo.
This story is currently developing, and although some airports have reported that there have been some minor delays after an IT glitch, they are back to normal now. However, other airports across the globe are continuing to report problems. The actual scale of this IT malfunction should become apparent over the next few hours.
We recommend you check with your airlines for any delays on your travel today.
Source: Daily Mail
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These IT outages seem to happen ever so often. That causes some huge headaches for all of us.
Guess I’m lucky my flights were on the 29th. My first leg was still delayed some, and we had to wait on the tarmac for a gate to de-plane, but luckily I still made my connection.
Wow, had no idea so many airlines use the same system! Sounds like a recipe for disaster there.
Thats why I still like to print boarding passes… but it won’t do much good with their systems shut down…
I didn’t even hear about this when I had gotten an email that at work they were having issues with a partner. Then I started seeing news stories about this. Didn’t get major coverage on the US news though. I’m very happy it didn’t last that long, but long enough to be an nuisance to everybody. I wonder how often we will see this going forward as things age and aren’t updated fast enough or at all.
These kind of things happen quite regularly.
Nothing is 100% fault free.
The only thing is that the airports and the airlines must be prepared and assist the passengers.
Of course everyone hopes not experiment this situation!
It blew over more quickly than I thought it might, but still had a few colleagues caught up in the mess.
This seems to be an all too familiar story. Thank god all airlines don’t use the same reservation system!
Another technology fail and it keeps getting bigger each time it happens.
Happy I dodged this today!
We flew out of Sydney today on AA and absolutely no problems.
Hopefully it will be resolved very soon…safe travels everyone.
This also seems to be affecting some booking systems.
Oh dear! What a huge mess
Oh great! Nothing in the US sounds like though
Hope they fix it soon. Scary that a bug (or a hacker) could cause such havoc
Gulp! I would not want to be a passenger on the receiving end of this.
Lots of patience for those who are being affected by this problem.
Gotta love technology, until it doesnt work and causes a huge problem.
Oh man, hope this gets fixed really quickly!
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Sometimes I worry about how vulnerable we are now a days. We are at the mercy of IT!
I imagine the airline call centers’ phones are lighting up like Christmas trees.
As someone who is flying into Gatwick tomorrow….oh goody.
Hopefully this problem is fixed quickly!
Oh no! Glad I’m not affected.
Argh. I hope this is fixed by tomorrow!