{"id":440441,"date":"2025-09-21T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:50:10","slug":"delays-continue-to-affect-thousands-as-cyberattack-hits-europes-airports-travel-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440441\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays continue to affect thousands as cyberattack hits Europe\u2019s airports | Travel News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">London\u2019s Heathrow and Brussel airports tell passengers to expect more delays on Sunday as interruption persists.<\/p>\n<p>Major international aviation hubs across Europe, including London\u2019s Heathrow airport and Berlin\u2019s Brandenburg airport, continue to face interruptions in their operations following a suspected cyberattack affecting their check-in systems, causing cancellations and delays for thousands of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow airport said early on Sunday that it is still trying \u201cto resolve and recover\u201d from the outage of its airline system, while apologising to its customers \u201cwho have faced delays\u201d. More than 200,000 passengers transit through the airport, the United Kingdom\u2019s largest and busiest, daily, and in July it recorded more than 7.9 million outbound and inbound passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as of early Sunday, Berlin airport announced on its website that, due to a \u201csystems outage\u201d, passengers could experience \u201clonger waiting times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin handled a total of 25.5 million passengers in 2024, with an average daily passenger count of almost 70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cyberattacks and technical disruptions have shaken the transport industry in recent years, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2024\/12\/26\/chk-japan-airlines-hit-by-cyber-attack-delaying-some-flights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary shutdown of Japan Airlines\u2019 system<\/a> and American Airlines in December 2024 and the suspected sabotage attack on France\u2019s national rail operator in July 2024 in advance of the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent aviation attack that hit Europe starting on Friday,\u00a0Dublin and Cork airports in Ireland also reported experiencing \u201cminor impacts\u201d from \u201ca Europe-wide software issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome disruption to flights is possible as the day goes on and passengers are advised to contact their airline directly for updates on their flight,\u201d Dublin airport said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n<p>In Belgium, Brussels airport reported at least 10 flight cancellations and 17 delayed flights after reporting a \u201ccyberattack\u201d late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of a cyberattack on the external service provider of the check-in and boarding systems, check-in operations at several European airports, including Brussels Airport, are heavily disrupted,\u201d the airport said in an announcement posted on its X account late on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifficult airport operations and flight cancellations\u201d are expected until Sunday, it added.<\/p>\n<p>News reports quoted the aviation watchdog Eurocontrol as stating that airports were \u201creporting disruptions in IT systems related to passenger handling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airlines had been asked to cancel half their flights to and from Brussels between 04:00 GMT on Saturday and 02:00 GMT on Monday because of the online attack, Eurocontrol said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have become aware of a cyber-related disruption to our MUSE software in select airports,\u201d airport service provider Collins Aerospace told the AFP news agency in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact is limited to electronic customer check-in and baggage drop,\u201d added Collins Aerospace, which says it has a presence in 170 airports globally.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/3\/21\/uks-heathrow-airport-shuts-amid-power-outage-spelling-travel-chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heathrow<\/a>, a passenger told AFP that passengers were not given adequate information about the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t tell us anything. It\u2019s always crowded here, but today is like extra,\u201d the passenger, a 41-year-old architect, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the system is down, they should delay the flight. That\u2019s what I\u2019m hoping,\u201d she added, waiting in the packed check-in area at Heathrow\u2019s Terminal 4 for a Saudia Airlines flight to Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman waiting for an Air Algerie flight to Algeria said she had been queueing for more than an hour to check in, noting that the airline was completing the process manually.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a fire had also knocked out Heathrow\u2019s power supply, shutting Europe\u2019s busiest airport for the day, throwing the plans of tens of thousands of travellers into chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Heathrow and Brussel airports tell passengers to expect more delays on Sunday as interruption persists. 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