Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed but services may take days to recover as travelers face major disruptions and Alaska emergency services affected
American travelers are facing a difficult morning.
According to aviation data company Flightaware’s Misery Map, 810 flights have been delayed so far and 210 have been canceled.
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down operations due to the outage. There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday. By 6am ET, nearly 1,400 of them had been cancelled, according to reports.
In a statement on Friday, the FAA said that it is “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at US airlines.” It added: “Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops until the issue is resolved.”
Long lines were forming at major US airports, as New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago airports were among those facing major delays as airlines struggled to process travelers. NBC news reports departure screens and check-in systems have failed and delays are expected to keep going up.
In Alaska, 911 services were affected by the CrowdStrike outage. State troopers wrote: “Due to a nationwide technology-related outage, many 911 and non-emergency call centers are not working correctly across the state of Alaska.”
The White House said that it is “looking into” the outage, according to a spokesperson speaking to CNN. “We’re aware of the incident and are looking into the issue and impacts,” the full statement said.
New York’s subway system agency, the MTA, said that “some MTA customer information systems are temporarily offline due to a worldwide technical outage”. It added that train and bus service is unaffected.
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Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed but services may take days to recover as travelers face major disruptions and Alaska emergency services affected
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American travelers are facing a difficult morning.
According to aviation data company Flightaware’s Misery Map, 810 flights have been delayed so far and 210 have been canceled.
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down operations due to the outage. There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday. By 6am ET, nearly 1,400 of them had been cancelled, according to reports.
In a statement on Friday, the FAA said that it is “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at US airlines.” It added: “Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops until the issue is resolved.”
Long lines were forming at major US airports, as New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago airports were among those facing major delays as airlines struggled to process travelers. NBC news reports departure screens and check-in systems have failed and delays are expected to keep going up.
In Alaska, 911 services were affected by the CrowdStrike outage. State troopers wrote: “Due to a nationwide technology-related outage, many 911 and non-emergency call centers are not working correctly across the state of Alaska.”
The White House said that it is “looking into” the outage, according to a spokesperson speaking to CNN. “We’re aware of the incident and are looking into the issue and impacts,” the full statement said.
New York’s subway system agency, the MTA, said that “some MTA customer information systems are temporarily offline due to a worldwide technical outage”. It added that train and bus service is unaffected. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian