Aer Lingus restores IT system soon after cancelling 51 flights

Aer Lingus restores IT system soon after cancelling 51 flights


An Aer Lingus passenger jet.

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Aer Lingus explained it experienced solved an IT challenge that led it to cancel 51 flights amongst Dublin airport and other European places on Saturday as examine-in and boarding was disrupted.

The Irish carrier, owned by London-detailed IAG, reported “a significant incident with a community company” intended it could not accessibility its cloud-based devices, leaving hundreds of travellers stranded exterior the country’s main airport.

“Aer Lingus sincerely apologises to buyers for the severe disruption caused right now,” it mentioned in a assertion, adding its operations for Sunday were planned to operate as usual.

The airline mentioned it operated all of its transatlantic solutions from Dublin with delays and decreased passenger quantities in some situations thanks to security limits as a consequence of the units outage.

Dublin airport before flagged the IT challenges struggling with Aer Lingus, indicating other airlines ended up not impacted.

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