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Cebu Pacific, AirAsia systems restored

By J.Lo


“All systems are now operational and we plan to operate our normal flight schedules as we advise passengers with confirmed bookings to continue monitoring  status of their flights,” Cebu Pacific corporate communications director Carmina Romero said systems have been restored and no stranded passengers remain at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 following  global IT systems outage  affected airlines and banks since July 19.

Cebu Pacific Air (CEB)  have fully restored their system.

Romero said CEB’s technology provider Navitaire has completed restoring all its services and its underlying servers to “full capacity.”

“We are grateful to our IT and airport staff who worked tirelessly to resolve situation and assist  affected passengers at  NAIA Terminal 3,” she stressed.

AirAsia Philippines head of communications and public affairs and first officer Steve Dailisan said as of Saturday, all their systems are back online.

“We ask for patience among our guests as we recover from multiple delays and cancellations as  result of  global IT outage since Friday that is beyond our control, as  airline  guest-obsessed,  AirAsia team continues to work tirelessly to minimize disruptions and ensure our passengers stay well informed and adequately taken care of, ” he said.

On July 19,  global IT systems outage crippled  flight operations of local and some foreign airlines, leaving thousands of departing passengers stranded at NAIA.

MIAA announced  cancellation of 45 domestic and international flights due to  system outage.

Some 12,500 passengers of Cebu Pacific and around 13,000 AirAsia passengers were affected, as well as six foreign airlines operating at NAIA.

In Paris, planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by  update to  antivirus program.

Passenger crowds had swelled at airports on Friday as dozens of flights were canceled after  update to  program operating on Microsoft Windows crashed systems worldwide.

By Saturday, officials said  situation had returned virtually to normal at airports across Germany and France, as Paris prepared to welcome millions for  Olympic Games starting on Friday.

Multiple US airlines and airports across Asia  had resumed operations, with check-in services restored in Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand and mostly back to normal in India, Indonesia and at Singapore’s Changi Airport as of Saturday afternoon.

Microsoft estimated Saturday 8.5 million Windows devices were affected as  number amounted to less than one percent of all Windows machines.

“While  percentage was small,  broad economic and societal impacts reflect use of CrowdStrike by enterprises  run many critical services,” it said.

Microsoft said issue began on July 18, affecting Windows users running  CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity software.

In  Saturday blog post, CrowdStrike  had released  update on Thursday night that had caused  system crash and  infamous “blue screen of death” fatal error message.

CrowdStrike  had rolled out  fix for  problem and  company’s boss, George Kurtz, told US news channel CNBC he wanted to “personally apologize to every organization, every group and every person who has been impacted.”

Company could take  few days for  situation to return to normal.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was hobbled by  crash on Friday, preventing doctors from accessing patient records and booking appointments.

“Majority of systems… are now coming back online in most areas, however, they are still running slightly slower than usual,” NHS spokesperson said, warning of disruption continuing into next week.

Media companies were also hit, with Britain’s Sky News saying  glitch had ended its Friday morning news broadcasts.

Australia’s ABC also reported major difficulties.

Australian, British and German authorities warned of  increase in scam and phishing attempts following  outage, including people offering to help reboot computers and asking for personal information or credit card details.

Banks in Kenya and Ukraine reported issues with their digital services, some mobile phone carriers were disrupted and customer services in several companies went down.

“Scale of this outage is unprecedented, and will no doubt go down in history,” said Junade Ali of Britain’s Institution of Engineering and Technology, adding  last incident approaching same scale was in 2017. 

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