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DUBLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Aer Lingus mentioned it had resolved an IT downside that led it to cancel 51 flights between Dublin airport and different European locations on Saturday as check-in and boarding was disrupted.
The Irish provider, owned by London-listed IAG (ICAG.L), mentioned “a serious incident with a community supplier” meant it couldn’t entry its cloud-based methods, leaving tons of of passengers stranded outdoors the nation’s principal airport.
“Aer Lingus sincerely apologises to clients for the extreme disruption prompted at the moment,” it mentioned in a press release, including its operations for Sunday had been deliberate to run as regular.
The airline mentioned it operated all of its transatlantic companies from Dublin with delays and diminished passenger numbers in some cases attributable to safety restrictions because of the methods outage.
Dublin airport earlier flagged the IT points going through Aer Lingus, saying different airways weren’t impacted.
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Reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin and Muvija M in London
Enhancing by Helen Popper and Mark Potter
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