Aer Lingus restores IT system after cancelling 51 flights

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Aer Lingus stated it had resolved an IT drawback that led it to cancel 51 flights between Dublin airport and different European locations on Saturday as check-in and boarding was disrupted.

The Irish service, owned by London-listed IAG, stated “a significant incident with a community supplier” meant it couldn’t entry its cloud-based programs, leaving a whole lot of passengers stranded outdoors the nation’s fundamental airport.

“Aer Lingus sincerely apologises to prospects for the extreme disruption prompted right now,” it stated in a press release, including its operations for Sunday had been deliberate to run as regular.

The airline stated it operated all of its transatlantic companies from Dublin with delays and diminished passenger numbers in some situations as a consequence of safety restrictions because of the programs outage.

Dublin airport earlier flagged https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/standing/1568544536980324353?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Egooglepercent7Ctwcamppercent5Eserppercent7Ctwgrpercent5Etweet the IT points going through Aer Lingus, saying different airways weren’t impacted.

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin and Muvija M in LondonEditing by Helen Popper and Mark Potter)