New Delhi: A traveler presents an out-of-date boarding card as Microsoft faces a bug at the airport in New Delhi, Friday July 19, 2024. On Friday, the Airport and airline services faced huge upsets due to Microsoft outage with airlines issuing advisories to passengers.
As Union Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu said after the CrowdStrike update gone wrong that brought down Microsoft systems around the world, airline systems across airports have begun functioning normally since 3.00 AM IST.
Naidu shared a note on X that stated flight operations were running smoothly again. According to this note, all issues should be resolved by noon although there was a backlog.
Airports in India went back to manually processing customers and issuing them with hand-written boarding passes after The Microsoft outage led to flight delays and cancellations throughout the world.
Passengers were stranded with little options where they can eat or find rest and CrowdStrike worked out what happened and sent a fix.
Systems began coming online again from the latter half of July 19 and early on July 20th morning.
CrowdStrike has said that it was not cyber-attack but warned users to be vigilant about any bad actors trying to take advantage of it.
