Brussels Airport asks airlines to cancel half of Monday's flights

Published connected 21/09/2025 - 16:53 GMT+2 •Updated 19:57

Brussels Airport, which faced sizeable issues pursuing precocious Friday's cyberattack that disrupted physics systems successful respective European airports, requested airlines to cancel half of their flights for an further time connected Monday.

On Sunday, nan airdrome cancelled 45 outbound and 30 inbound flights, much than double nan number of flights cancelled a time earlier, 25 departures and 13 arrivals.

It remains unclear erstwhile nan business will beryllium fixed, spokesperson for Brussels Airport Ihsane Chioua Lekhli said, "We're taking it time by day.”

The 2 different impacted airports, successful London and Berlin, besides saw nan fallout from nan cyberattack connected check-in systems for a 2nd time connected Sunday.

Berlin's Brandenburg Airport stated that problems persisted pinch nan software, but that it had recovered a manual workaround, which meant nan airdrome did not look immoderate awesome delays aliases cancellations.

The airdrome did pass passengers of longer waiting times, "Please usage online check-in, self-service check-in and nan accelerated container driblet service," a connection connected nan airport's website read.

Departure boards for London's Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were besides showing signs of smoother arrivals and departures.

“Work continues to resoluteness and retrieve from Friday’s outage of a Collins Aerospace hose strategy that impacted check-in,” a Heathrow connection said. “We apologise to those who person faced delays, but by moving together pinch airlines, nan immense mostly of flights person continued to operate.”

The airports advised passengers to cheque their formation position earlier travelling to nan airports, and to usage replacement check-in methods.

Starting precocious Friday, nan 3 airports were deed by nan cyberattack. The onslaught did not target circumstantial airports aliases airlines, but alternatively affected nan package of Collins Aerospace, whose systems thief passengers cheque themselves in, people boarding passes and container tags, and dispatch their luggage from a kiosk.

It remains unclear who was down nan cyberattack. However, nan European Commission confirmed that aviation information and aerial postulation power were unaffected and said location is nary denotation of a wide aliases terrible attack.