Travelers stuck in 'madhouse' misery as huge lines spiral around airports in ongoing travel chaos

Travel chaos has struck the country as passengers are still arriving at airports in the hope of catching their flights amid a global IT crisis .

At Boston Logan International Airport, the queues forming are the same length as a football field. One eyewitness said on X : "This is the start of the check-in line for ⁦ @SpiritAirlines in Terminal B at Logan.

"The line is 100 yards long. A football field. Some passengers say they’ve been in line since 4am, due to the global outage impacting many airlines and other industries."

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Meanwhile, The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is still facing severe issues. Passengers have taken to standing in long queues in what has been described by one person as a "madhouse" as people try and look for answers. All flights at the airport are currently grounded.

Flights have also been stopped from coming into the airport. The situation has been made worse, with only one line for people to check in bags and terminals being down.

The Microsoft global outage has wreaked havoc across America today. locking countless individuals out of their bank accounts and even grounding flights .

The notorious Blue Screen of Death is popping up everywhere, from banks to supermarkets and media outlets, causing widespread panic and confusion. All United, Delta, and American Airlines flights have been grounded.

Airports are scrambling to find a fix with some taking it old school. One person wrote: "The Microsoft / CrowdStrike outage has taken down most airports in India. I got my first hand-written boarding pass today."

Microsoft has issued a statement on the issue. “Our services are still seeing continuous improvements while we continue to take mitigation actions,” Microsoft said on X this morning. “We still expect that users will continue to see gradual relief as we continue to mitigate the issue.”

Crowdstrike has also issued a statement on the ongoing IT outage. CEO George Kurtz said on X: "CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack."

Additionally, CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz told Today that this “not a cyberattack. It was related to [a] content update," adding: “We’re deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this."