LONG queues have been seen at Stansted Airport today with their airline check-in services being done manually due to a worldwide IT outage – with the airport adding that flights “flights are still operating as normal”

The exact cause of the IT outage is unclear – though companies impacted have linked it to Microsoft PC operating systems.

London Stansted Airport have said “some” airline check-in services have been done manually – like other organisations such as Radio 4 who are now using paper printouts for their scripted bulletins.

A London Stansted Airport spokesman said: “Some retail payment machine services have been impacted, and some airline check-in services reverted to being done manually, but our main operational systems are unaffected, and flights are still operating as normal.”

 

Several US airlines have had to ground their flights across the globe and in Australia as well as broadcast networks, supermarkets have also been affected.

A spokesman Australia's Home Affairs Minister said the outage appears to be related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

While Australia’s country's cybersecurity watchdog said due to a lack of information, that there is no suggestion that the IT failure was an attack.

UPDATE:

At 9.30am a London Stansted Airport spokesman added: "Some retail payment machine services have been impacted, and some airline check-in services reverted to being done manually, but our main operational systems are unaffected and flights are still operating as normal".