Brussels Airport cancels nearly 140 flights in the middle of the spin -offs of cyber attacks across Europe

The fallout from a cyber attack that disrupted the recording systems in several European airports have extended in a second full day on Sunday, while passengers faced dozens of canceled and delayed flights – and the ready to worsen impact to at least a major airport.

Brussels Airport, apparently the hardest part, said that it had asked airlines to cancel nearly 140 runners, scheduled for Monday because a software system supplier “is not yet able to deliver a new secure version of the registration system.” The airport said 25 outgoing flights were canceled on Saturday and 50 on Sunday.

From the end of Friday, the Berlin, Brussels and London airports were struck by disturbances of the electronic systems that hampered the registration process and sent members of the airline staff trying options such as leaving them of the boarding or the use of the Laptops of Rescue. Many other European airports were not affected.

The cyber attack affected the software of Collins Aerospace, whose systems help passengers to register, to print boarding passes and bags of bags and to ship their luggage. On Saturday, the company based in the United States cited a “disturbance linked to the cyber” of its software in “select” airports in Europe.

It was not immediately clear which could be behind the cyber attack, but the experts said that it could prove to be hackers, criminal organizations or state actors.

The European Commission, the executive power of the European Union of 27 countries, said that air security and air traffic control was not affected. There was currently no indication of a widespread or severe attack, and the origin of the incident remained under investigation, he said.

While the departure councils for London Heathrow and Berlin Brandenburg airports showed signs of arrivals and darker departures on Sunday, Brussels airport was still faced with considerable problems.

Brussels airport said in an email on Sunday that it had asked airlines to cancel half of the 276 departure flights scheduled for Monday, “because Collins Aerospace is not yet able to deliver a new secure version of the registration system.” Cancellations and delays will continue as long as manual registration is necessary, he said.

RTX Corp., the parent company of Collins Aerospace, did not immediately respond to two emails on Sunday to ask for comments.

On Saturday, the aviation and defense technology company said in a statement that it worked to resolve the problem: “The impact is limited to the electronic recording of customers and luggage fall and can be attenuated with manual registration operations.”

Brussels Airport said that it had nevertheless been able to maintain 85% of the departures scheduled during the weekend thanks to the deployment of additional personnel by airport partners “and the fact that the fall of the Self-Bag and online recording are always operational.”

Cyberattaque only affected IT systems in recording offices, not self-service kiosks, the spokesperson for Ihsane Chioua Lekhli, and the teams turned to alternative backup systems and withdrew laptop computers to help in the impact.

Airports advised passengers to check the condition of their flights before going to airports and using other recording methods.

“The work continues to resolve and recover from the release of Friday from an aerospace airline system which had an impact on the recording,” said a Heathrow statement. “We apologize to those who have faced delays, but working with airlines, the vast majority of flights have continued to work.”

A message rolling on the web page of Brandenburg on Sunday said: “Due to a systems failure at a service provider, there are longer waiting times. Please use online recording, self-service recording and fast bag falling service.”