Delay after hitting the airport check system

Heathrow is among the many European airports that hit an electronic attack that affects the electronic check -in and electronic registration system.

The airport has warned against the potential delay due to a “technical problem” that affects the programs provided by Collins air for several airlines.

Brussels Airport said that the electronic attack on Friday night meant that the passengers had been logged in and were handcuffed, while Berndenburg Airport in Berlin also reported longer waiting times due to the problem.

RTX, who owns Collins Aerospace, said it is “familiar with the online disruption” of his system in “AirPorts Select” and that it is working to solve the problem as soon as possible.

The company added: “The effect on electronic checkpoints for customers and luggage is limited and can be diluted with manual checkpoints,” the company added.

She said that the attack struck the Muse program – which allows various airlines to use the same check offices and the climbing gates at the airport, instead of requesting them.

BBC realizes that British Airways is working as usual using a backup system, but most other airlines operating from Heathrow have been affected.

Hundreds of flights were delayed in airports throughout Saturday, according to Flighter Tracker Flightaware.

Dublin Airport said that this and the Cork Airport have witnessed a “simple effect” of the electronic attack, as some airlines carry out manual regulations.

Lucy Spencer said she was in queues to record the flight of Malaysia Air Lines for more than two hours, and that the employees were manual manual luggage and checking passengers over the phone.

“They told us to use the climbing passes to our phone, but when we got to the gates they did not work in – they have now sent us to the checkpoint,” she told the BBC from Heathrow at Heathro 4.

Another passenger, Monza Aslam, said that she sat on the airport runway for more than an hour, “without any idea of ​​when we will fly,” and has already lost her connection in Doha.

She said, “I have been in Heathrow with my elderly father since 05:00,” adding: “We are hungry and tired.”

Johnny Lal, who was to fly to Bombay because of his mother’s funeral on Saturday, said that his mother will now miss their journey.

“You cannot walk a single step without her scooter,” he told BBC. “They continue to tell us that the systems have decreased.”

Look Ajgher Gwns said that although waiting lists in Building 3 were “much larger than usual”, the airline for its American trip and the airport “seems to be ready and that waiting lists move much faster than I was afraid.”

He added: “They are also calling for specific trips and choosing people from the waiting list to ensure that they do not miss their flights.”

Heathrow said that the additional employees were at hand in the registration areas to help reduce the disorder.

“We advise the passengers to verify the status of their flight with their airlines before traveling to the airport and they do not reach ever three hours before a long journey or two hours for a local trip.”

Transport Minister Heidi Alexander said she was aware of the accident and was “getting regular updates and monitoring the situation.”

Easyjet and Ryanair, who do not work outside Heathrow but one of the largest airlines in Europe, said they work normally.

Brussels Airport said that there will be a “major impact on the flight schedule”, including cancellation and delay. Long queues and large crowds can be seen at the airport on Saturday morning.

The Aviation Safety Organization in Europe said that the airlines operators were asked to cancel half of their flight schedules to and from the airport between 04:00 GMT on Saturday and 02:00 on Monday due to the turmoil.

“Any disturbance is likely to be dangerous” in Heathrow, given that he is the most crowded in Europe, and that “controlling departure is a really complicated work.”

He told BBC: “These things are interconnected, so a little problem in Brussels, in Berlin … People begin to lose communications, aircraft, passengers and pilots who are not in the place where they can be, and things can become much worse before they improve.”

Last September was only the global information technology was disrupted due to the update of defective programs from Crowdstrike Crowdstrike FlyingEarth flights throughout the United States.

Analysts said at the time that the accident was the most prominent of how the industry could be vulnerable to problems related to digital systems.

While there are baseless accusations that this electronic attack was carried out by the Kremlin’s infiltrators, all the main infiltrators in the past few years have been carried out by criminal gangs more interested in extracting money from their victims.

The blackmail gangs have achieved hundreds of millions of dollars annually using a ransom to pay large sums to them in the encrypted currency.

It is too early to know who is behind this attack. Some cyber security experts suggested that this may be a ransom attack, but they noticed that they could be committed by the state -sponsored actors as well.

Collins Aerospace publicly did not comment on the nature or origin of the penetration.

The headquarters of many piracy gangs are located in Russia or other previous Soviet countries, some of which are believed to have relations with the Russian state.

But there were many arrests elsewhere, while British and American adolescents were accused of carrying out some major electronic attacks against Las Vegas casinos, dancers, cooperation and transportation in London.

Additional reports by Rachel Muller Hindik