Passengers face long queues at Heathrow, Berlin and Brussels airports
\n BERLIN
\nSome of Europe\u2019s biggest airports, including the region\u2019s busiest, London\u2019s Heathrow, raced to restore normal operations on Sunday after hackers disrupted automatic check-in systems.
\nHackers on Saturday targeted check-in and boarding systems provider Collins Aerospace, owned by RTX, disrupting operations at Heathrow, Berlin Airport and in Brussels, where passengers faced long queues, cancellations and delays.
\nDisruption had eased significantly by early Sunday despite some continuing delays, according to airport officials and data, while regulators said they were investigating the source of the cyberattack.
\nBrussels Airport said that 45 out of 257 scheduled departing flights on Sunday were cancelled but operational adjustments had kept waiting times down.
\n\u201cThere are delays between 30 and 90 minutes,\u201d a spokesperson for the airport told Reuters, adding it was not clear yet how much longer disruptions would last.
\nA passenger flying from Brussels said disruption had been minimal.
\n\u201cFor me, it was business as usual. For those poor souls who didn\u2019t do online check-in or have bags to check, they may be waiting a bit,\u201d he said.
\nThe disruption is the latest in a string of hacks to hit sectors from healthcare to autos. A breach at carmaker Jaguar Land Rover halted production, while another caused Marks & Spencer losses in the hundreds of millions of pounds.
\nRTX called the incident a \u201ccyber-related disruption\u201d and said it had impacted its MUSE software, which is used by several airlines. RTX was not immediately available for comment on Sunday.
\nBerlin Brandenburg Airport said on Sunday problems persisted but that it was working with the company to resolve the issue. A manual workaround was in place and there were currently no major delays or cancellations, it added.
\nHeathrow said early on Sunday that work was continuing to recover from the check-in system outage. It added that \u201cthe vast majority of flights have continued to operate\u201d.
\nAn analysis by aviation data provider Cirium said delays at Heathrow were \u201clow\u201d, Berlin had \u201cmoderate\u201d delays, while Brussels had \u201csignificant\u201d delays, but these were decreasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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