IT breakdownSkyguide lifts traffic reduction after global IT outage
SDA
19.7.2024 - 10:16
Due to a global IT failure, skyguide air traffic control has temporarily reduced transit traffic and approach capacities to Zurich by 30 percent each: view of the tower in Zurich. (archive picture)
Keystone
Global IT failures had an impact on air traffic on Friday morning. Skyguide air traffic control temporarily reduced capacity for transit traffic and approaches to Zurich by 30 percent. The measure was lifted in the afternoon.
19.07.2024, 10:16
19.07.2024, 14:29
SDA
Skyguide was also affected by the global disruption caused by a failed update to a program from the IT security company Crowdstrike, as reported by the air traffic control authority. The problem partially affected corporate IT.
In the afternoon, the company wrote that the restrictions on transit traffic had been lifted with immediate effect. Skyguide is also working normally again for arrivals and departures. Safety in Swiss airspace was guaranteed at all times, it added.