{"id":613810,"date":"2025-12-05T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613810\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:44:11","slug":"edinburgh-airport-latest-flights-resume-but-disruption-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613810\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Airport latest: Flights resume but disruption continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one bit of air travel tech fails &#8211; it falls like dominospublished at 10:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Tom Gerken<\/strong><br \/>Technology reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If this outage today feels somewhat familiar to you, there&#8217;s<br \/>\na good reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In August this year, United Airlines had what it called a &#8220;technology<br \/>\nissue&#8221; that grounded flights. One month earlier, Alaska Airlines had an IT<br \/>\nissue which cancelled them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And of course, a year and a half ago, a significant issue<br \/>\nwith cyber security firm CrowdStrike grounded thousands of flights globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reality is that air travel is complicated. The tech<br \/>\nwhich keeps everything working interacts in all sorts of ways, whether it&#8217;s<br \/>\nchecking the weight of the plane or \u2013 as appears to be the case here \u2013 how air<br \/>\ntraffic control functions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If one single bit of tech fails, it&#8217;s like dominos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And as we know from previous outages, even when the problem<br \/>\nis finally resolved, it will still take a while to bring everything back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If one bit of air travel tech fails &#8211; it falls like dominospublished at 10:59 GMT 10:59 GMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-613810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115667027077141272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}