BRUSSELS: European air travellers faced mass disruption on Tuesday with around half of all flights at risk of delays following a technical problem at Eurocontrol, the agency in charge of the continent’s skies. Several of the EU’s biggest airports, including Amsterdam’s Schiphol, warned of problems and advised passengers to check on their flights because of the computer breakdown. Approximately half of those could have some delay as a result of the system outage,” said a statement from Eurocontrol. The Brussels-based agency, which coordinates European air traffic control operators, said the cause “has been identified and action is underway to return to normal operations” but that that would not happen until “late this evening”. It added that air traffic control had not been directly affected and “there are no safety implications arising from this incident”.

Source: Pakistan Today April 03, 2018 14:48 UTC