Ryanair and Spanish airports have reported problems. At 8am Europe time this morning, reports started coming in of a major outage on Microsoft systems. Airlines, airports, media companies as well as other types of businesses have reported problems as their systems rely on Microsoft.
Here's what we know so far about its impact on European travel. Ryanair's official Twitter account has an update from this morning at 9.30am CET, saying: "We’re currently experiencing disruption across the network due to a Global 3rd party IT outage which is out of our control.
We advise all passengers to arrive at the airport at least 3 hours before their scheduled departure time." It seems that the outage means passengers cannot check-in online as Ryanair advises: "If you're due to travel today and have not already checked-in for your flight, you can do so at the airport." Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is the latest to report delays.
"The outage has an impact on flights flying from and to Schiphol," a spokesperson told the BBC, adding it is not yet clear how many flights are affected. Departure screens at Edinburgh airport were down this morning, and a fire alarm in the main terminal building was going off, thought to be have been triggered by the same computer error..
