DUBLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Aer Lingus stated it had resolved an IT downside 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 provider, owned by London-listed IAG (ICAG.L), stated “a significant incident with a community supplier” meant it couldn’t entry its cloud-based methods, leaving a whole bunch of passengers stranded exterior the nation’s essential airport.
“Aer Lingus sincerely apologises to clients for the extreme disruption brought on as we speak,” it stated in an announcement, including its operations for Sunday have been deliberate to run as regular.
The airline stated it operated all of its transatlantic providers from Dublin with delays and decreased passenger numbers in some situations as a consequence of safety restrictions because of the methods outage.
Dublin airport earlier flagged the IT points dealing with Aer Lingus, saying different airways weren’t impacted.
Reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin and Muvija M in London
Enhancing by Helen Popper and Mark Potter
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