An international IT outage causes disruption on one of East Midlands Airport's busiest days.
are possiblethat a hen party due to fly to Dublin from East Midlands Airport had been split up due to the disruption.
Peter Earl and Carole Macalister, from Boston in Lincolnshire, travelled from Palma, in Spain, to East Midlands Airport today." stuck in Palma airport for over an hour, on the tarmac, on the aeroplane, instead of being inside. It wasn't very pleasant at all.Parcel delivery company UPS, which has an air hub at East Midlands Airport, said its computer systems were affected.They said: "A third-party software outage is impacting some UPS computer systems in the US and Europe.
Some processes like check-in and boarding have been done manually, with no cancellations anticipated but delays are possible, according to the airportAnti-virus firm Crowdstrike confirmed a bug in its software was to blame for IT issues on Microsoft devices across the worldIt says some NHS services are impacted, and an issue with EMIS - an appointment and patient record system - is causing some disruption in some GP practices.
Andrea Selby, of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, said: "There were queues from getting through the door.She added: "Nothing electronic was working. Shortly before news of the outage broke, I spoke to Ryan and George who were due to jet off to Marbella for the weekend to celebrate the 30th birthday of Ryan's girlfriend's cousin.De Montfort University associate professor Dr Ismini Vasileiou, who is an expert in cyber-security and IT, has told the BBC that it "will take time" to recover from today's global IT problems.
"This is incredibly time-consuming and will take organisations days to do at scale. Essentially we have one of the world's highest impact IT incidents caused by a cyber-security vendor."A look at the departures board on the East Midlands Airport website should offer a certain amount of reassurance for any travellers worried about whether their flight will get away on time today.
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