WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WWLP) – A worldwide IT outage is affecting industries across the board from banking to stock markets and healthcare systems and even the nation’s airports.
Several airlines face global ground stop and services disrupted worldwide in wake of major Microsoft Outage At Bradley International Airport, people received alerts from their airlines either canceling their flights or encouraging them to arrive early to make sure they make it. This all is reportedly the result of a bad software update pushed out by the cyber security company Crowdstrike which sells antivirus and security software to major corporations around the world including Microsoft which of course is the operating system of most of planet Earth.
Personal machines are mostly unaffected and Mac and Linux systems aren’t at all. It’s mostly large corporate systems.
The update caused computers with the software to crash and get stuck in a boot loop. Microsoft reportedly found a fix to the issue so things are starting to recover but the downstream effects will continue at airports around the country.
Chaos followed by acceptance at Bradley International Airport Friday morning as travelers reconciled with delays and cancellations amid the global IT outage that ground air travel to a halt around the world. The early-morning disruptions triggering a cascading affect on flight schedules throughout the day.
“We were taking a short vacation to the Charlotte area, North Carolina, and we don’t know when we are getting out,” said Massachusetts resident Mike Bulda. “We may end up driving.”
The delays affected everyone coming through the airport, from people trying to get a head start on their vacations to athletic teams trying to make it to away games like members of Hartford Athletic, the soccer team trying to get on a plane to Pittsburgh for an away game, and knew right away when they arrived Friday morning they probably weren’t making it.
“It was kind of stagnant. No one was moving at all, everyone was standing at the counter. When I walked in, my teammates give you a little smile. You know something is up when you get that. We’re supposed to be in Pittsburgh soon because we have a game tomorrow. But with the delays, we might not even travel. We might have to take a second option and bus in,” said Hartford Athletic Defender Jordan Scarlett.
By noon Friday more than two-thousand total flights were canceled, far surpassing the single-day high over the last 30 days of 1800, with more sure to come. Federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg weighed in amid the chaos, saying airlines will be held accountable to those passengers.
It’s not just at Bradley airport, nationwide there are over 1,500 cancellations at airports already closing in on the single-day high in the last month. That means certainly if you are traveling Friday or if you have a flight Saturday or even Sunday, pay special attention, this is going to disrupt the schedule for a while.
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