The error showed in multiple businesses and caused a sudden system shutdown and restart.
In addition to all of the above, Government Offices in the US and Australia were affected by this sudden error caused by CrowdStrike and Microsoft is working right now to resolve the issue.
"We still expect that users will continue to see gradual relief as we continue to mitigate the issue," Microsoft stated.
After the significant CrowdStrike outage in the Microsoft Azure Cloud software, all airplanes from the Frontier company in Colorado were forced to a ground stop. “Our systems are currently impacted by a Microsoft outage, which is also affecting other companies,” says Frontier Airlines on their Twitter Account.
The airline announces the delays and the departments that might affect its travelers. “During this booking, check-in, access to your boarding pass, and some flights may be impacted.” According to FlightAware, Frontier Airlines' 27% of flights on Thursday evening were delayed, and 20% were canceled.
However, amid this outage, Southwest and United Airlines, other airlines based in America, declared that they weren’t affected by the Microsoft blackout.
Which other airlines and airports across the globe are affected by the Microsoft issue?
- KLM, the Dutch airline, also experienced problems with its systems and stated that “flight handling is currently impossible.”
- Both German Airlines Lufthansa and Eurowings have also reported issues. Eurowings check-in system is not working at the moment.
- Scandinavian SAS Airline Both state that it is experiencing some “ technical issues” at the booking department.
- Prague Airport has been affected by the check-in system, and departures have been briefly delayed.
- Belfast International Airport, based in Northern Ireland, stated that flights remain operational while the airport is affected.
- Ryanair stated that travelers were unable to check in on their mobile app and website Friday morning. They posted on the X account (formerly Twitter) that they are "experiencing disruption" due to a "globe 3rd party IT outage."
- In Australia, Qantas Airlines also had to ground its aircraft. Sydney Airport's operations and terminal services were affected, and Brisbane Airport is trying to facilitate flights using backup systems. Both airports warned their travelers to allocate additional time for their journeys.
- At Prague Airport, the outage has caused departure delays due to disruptions in the global check-in system.
- In Spain, the outage affected all airports, causing problems for travelers throughout the country.
- One of the busiest airports in the world, Hong Kong Airport, tried to implement manual check-in procedures to solve the problem as quickly as possible.
- The same happened at Singapore airport, where they had implemented the manual check-in process to handle the situation.
According to aviation firm Cirium, more than 1,000 flights worldwide have been canceled due to the Microsoft outage. Right now, 1,078 flights have been canceled, and we are waiting for further reports to see if this number will increase.
The Cirium company also states that many flights were scheduled in the UK today, which was believed to be the busiest day for flights in the United Kingdom.
Why did the Global Outage happen?
From some initial reports, it is believed that the IT outage happened because of an antivirus software update that had issues at CrowdStrike, a global security film. Many devices, computers, mobile phones, and others that were using Microsoft software have been affected and could not function properly due to software issues.
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