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9 flights cancelled at Chhattisgarh's Raipur airport
A widespread global computer outage on Friday led to several Indian airlines facing technical and operational disruptions, which also impacted Swami Vivekananda Airport in Chhattisgarh's Raipur, where nine flights belonging to IndiGo Airlines were cancelled, officials said.
These comprise five departures and four arrivals, they said, adding a few flights were also delayed. Officials, however, did not give details of these delayed flights.
"Five flights from Raipur to Bengaluru (at 19:55 hrs), Kolkata (20:45 hrs), Hyderabad (20:55 hrs), Mumbai (21:05 hrs) and Delhi (21:20 hrs) and four arrival flights, all belonging to IndiGo, have been cancelled following the IT outage," an airport official here told PTI.
Several passengers said the airport authority and airlines were not giving them proper updates.
Flight operations affected at Bengaluru airport
"A global outage with the Navitaire Departure Control System (DCS) has been affecting operations of some airlines across their network, including BLR Airport since 10:40 IST on July 19, 2024.
"Indigo, Akasa, and SpiceJet in T1 and Air India Express in T2 are among the impacted airlines. The Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) and Common Use Self Service (CUSS) systems are also experiencing disruptions.
"In response to this situation, Indigo, Air India Express, SpiceJet and Akasa have taken proactive measures by initiating manual check-ins to ensure minimal disruption to passengers and flight schedules," Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL) spokesperson said.
UK airports, trains, London Stock Exchange impacted
London's biggest airport, Heathrow, said in a statement that its "flights are operational though we are experiencing delays".
Banks, payments systems unaffected by Microsoft outage
Indian banks and payments systems were unaffected by the Microsoft outage, which has impacted financial services players worldwide.
"We are all fine," SBI Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara told PTI when asked about the impact of the outage on the operations at the country's largest lender which commands nearly 25 per cent market share.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) chief executive Dilip Asbe said the country's payments architecture, including the widely popular Unified Payments Interface, has been unaffected.
HDFC Bank, the biggest among the private sector lenders, also said that it has not faced any impact of the outage.
"Our systems are unaffected by the global outage. There is no impact on banking operations," said Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, the group head for information technology at HDFC Bank.
Officials at ICICI Bank and Axis Bank also said that their systems were working fine and showing no impact of the outage.
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Microsoft's reaction: "We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming"
Microsoft on Friday said that it is aware of the issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform.
A Microsoft spokesperson said: "We're aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming."