Microsoft IT outage: Airports chaos on busiest day of the year

Passengers are facing long queues and lengthy delays after air and rail travel was thrown into chaos by a global IT outage on the busiest day of the year.

Staff at airports from Heathrow to Bangkok have been forced to manually check-in travellers after the technical glitch sent systems into meltdown just as thousands of families prepared to make their summer holiday getaways.

Swathes of people and businesses have been affected by the glitch, with pupils sent home from school, TV channels taken off air and supermarkets and pubs unable to accept card payments.

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[jamesdunne]

And they want us to give up cash! ....What could possibly go wrong? 🤔😂😂

[bolio]

Did they try turning it off and on again?

[Englishman]

Why are there so many stories about the poor dears at the airport? Surely the bigger story is the disruption to the health service and banking etc?

[ChineseKiwi]

It is not a Microsoft based issue and this is poor journalism. The core issue was from a software called Crowdstrike Falcon.

[bringbackthefruits]

This is why I still prefer using cash, prefer doing my business in person and a bit of a technophobe. Scary how the world relies on Internet and IT for everything these days. Then again money talks...

[human]

It's almost as though not having failsafe secondary systems for anything important is a stupid idea...

[peterchapman]

thats why i never travel in peak periods there always seems to be something goes wrong

[suelister]

And this is going to become worse once they get rid of cash..the systems will be on over load a lot more often because more will be having to use their cards at one time because cash will be gone..wake the hell people

[Themetaladam]

Blaming Microsoft on a Crowdstrike issue is like blaming every car with an engine on a fault found on a Peugeot 107

[jackmortimer]

This is why we shouldn't rely soooo heavily on technology

[djc]

We had a plane circling over us this morning. I wondered why it was so low. Must have affected landing at Manchester airport. One little glitch and chaos.

[JelMain]

Reports say the London Stock Exchange is a right mess at the moment. Memories of 87 - the Bank of England had big problems with CHAPS on Thursday.

[jwsuicides]

How did I ever travel before everything was computerised?

[jocarter]

It is frightening how reliant the World has beco.e to Internet connections!

[rosemariemcgowan]

Good old pen and paper every time 😂😂😂😂😂

[DisAstra-qxgq]

Who would have thought technology can go wrong.

[Atomic]

Well this is what happens when humans are two dependent on technology. No plan B

[grahamcrawley]

Poorly titled to generate views because no one will know who Crowdstrike are

[dannirichardson]

Purely an accidental blip .... hmmmm proves cash is king though!

[lolli]

See, this is why we can't have monopolies. One failure at one company affecting millions of people across the globe. What the hell?! This is insane.