Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin One in four departures out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was delayed on Monday. F our days after a cyberattack took down internet, phone, baggage and multiple other systems at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, authorities are still in the dark and travelers are still encountering a swath of inconveniences. The Wi-Fi and phone systems are still down.
The departure and arrival boards are dark. The airport’s app is not updating. Baggage sorting is being done by hand.
The airport’s lost-and-found tracking system isn ’t working. The paid-parking system has also been impacted. “We saw some nefarious characters that may have been on our system early in the morning on Saturday, and as we would take precautions for that, we actually turned off our entire system to avoid anything further,” Perry Cooper, an airport spokesperson, told reporters Monday afternoon.
When Sea-Tac’s systems will be restored is anybody’s guess. “We’re pretty much where we were previously on that situation,” Cooper said. “There’s currently no estimated time of return.
” On the bright side, fewer flights were disrupted on Monday compared to the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, a total of 474 departing flights—accounting for roughly a third of the airport’s scheduled departures—were delayed, according to data from FlightAware. On Monday, 172 departures out of Sea-Tac were delayed—still about a quarter of all sch.