Cyberattack causes disruptions at major European airports

Published connected 20/09/2025 - 15:33 GMT+2 •Updated 18:08

A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems disrupted aerial postulation and caused delays astatine respective awesome airports successful Europe connected Saturday, including astatine Brussels Airport successful Belgium, London Heathrow Airport successful nan United Kingdom and Berlin's Brandenburg Airport successful Germany.

"There was a cyberattack connected Friday nighttime 19 September against nan work supplier for nan check-in and boarding systems affecting respective European airports including Brussels Airport," Brussels Airport wrote successful a connection connected their website, adding that only manual check-in and boarding was possible.

The cyberattack concerned nan supplier of check-in and boarding systems, alternatively than circumstantial airlines aliases airports themselves.

Collins Aerospace, nan institution whose systems held passengers cheque themselves in, people boarding passes and container tags astatine airports globally, cited a “cyber-related disruption” to its package astatine “select airports.”

Brussels Airport spokesperson, Ihsane Chioua Lekhli, told section media that 9 flights had been cancelled connected Saturday morning, 4 were redirected to different airport, including Ostend Airport and 15 were delayed by astatine slightest an hour.

Later, nan airdrome announced it would besides cancel half of its departing flights connected Sunday, section media reported, successful an effort to debar agelong queues and precocious cancellations.

35,000 passengers were expected to depart from nan Belgian airdrome connected Saturday. Brussels Airport advised passengers to only travel if their formation had been confirmed.

Brandenburg Airport did not look immoderate formation cancellations, but nan airdrome did pass passengers for delays, arsenic good arsenic longer hold times for check-in and boarding. The airdrome said operators had trim disconnected connections to affected systems.

Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow Airport successful London, besides reported nary cancellations and said disruptions had been "minimal."