Not a huge cyber-attack, but an antivirus flaw. Airports, like many companies, hospitals and even the organising committee for the Olympic Games, are the paradoxical victims of a major botched update of an antivirus. cyber security solutionCrowdstrike, a Microsoft supplier. Although a patch seems to have been deployed to remedy the situation, the outage is causing havoc at hubs around the world.
Not everyone is paralysed, but everyone is affected. Among the least affected, Paris airports are operating more or less normally. Transport Minister Patrick Vergriete, who said he was closely monitoring the situation with the operators, said on X that ". limited disruption to operations at certain airlines and airports" However, the SNCF and RATP networks were operating "normally" at this stage.
For its part, Air France said that its operations remained " close to normal" for its sites and applications. " At this stage, only flights to Amsterdam and Berlin are disrupted." . The same cannot be said for Amsterdam Schiphol. KLM announced at 12.30pm on X - ex Twitter - that " only limited air traffic was currently possible" Customers can therefore expect delays and cancellations. An embarrassing situation at a time when the summer holiday season has just begun, stresses the airline, which explains that it is working hard to restore operations.
Transavia France's operations, with delays to be expected, but also cancellations including certain flights between Berlin and Orly and Nantes, but also from Orly to Chania, Catania, Stockholm, Oslo, Dubrovnik, Ibiza and Prague. For its part, Ryanair is advising its passengers to arrive at the airport more than 3 hours before their flight.
Berlin airport is also experiencing difficulties in checking in passengersBerlin Brandenburg Airport's X feed urged passengers to contact their airlines and not to go to the airport if their flight was cancelled.
In Spain, airports have also been affected since the start of the morning, with the Aena group, which manages a large number of airports, explaining at around 12 noon that it was gradually recovering its IT systems following this global incident: "The Aena group, which manages a large number of airports, is gradually recovering its IT systems following this global incident.All the airports in the Spanish network are operational and flights are operated in collaboration with the airlines." .
In Asia, registration operations at Singapore Changi were switched to manual mode as a result of the worldwide IT systems failure that affected more than 10 airlines at Changi airport. " We are working with our airport partners to put in place additional resources to support the manual check-in process." posted the Singapore hub.
Across the Atlantic, United says it has "working on complete restoration of its systems" Some flights will be resumed, but delays are obviously expected. The airline has announced that it has issued a " derogation to facilitate modification As for American, it explained that it had been able to restore its "travel plans" on its website and its application. As for American, the company explains that it was able to restore its " operations in complete safety" .
