Dublin Airport disruption continues following cyber-attack

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Dublin Airport is dealing with a second day of disruption at Terminal 2 after a cyber-attack knocked out a check-in and baggage methods.

The airport stated it's persevering with to help airways coping with the " Europe-wide technical issue ".

A spokesperson stated that "as of noon, 13 flights have been cancelled - 9 inbound and 4 outbound".

Aer Lingus stated will probably be "considerably impacted" on Sunday resulting in flight delays and cancellations.

The airline additionally suggested prospects to check-in for flights on-line upfront and stated updates will probably be offered.

Graeme McQueen, spokesperson for Dublin Airport, stated they're persevering with to help airways coping with "ongoing disruption brought on by a Europe-wide technical difficulty that's impacting on their check-in and boarding methods".

He added that some airways are persevering with guide workarounds to generate bag tags and boarding passes with processes taking longer.

"Passengers ought to plan to reach on the airport as regular at present (two hours earlier than a brief haul flight and three hours earlier than a protracted haul flight), nevertheless, these needing to check-in or drop off baggage on the airport ought to permit extra time.

"If you're flying over the following 12, 24, 48 hours, keep watch over your airline's updates, they may have the newest updates on the standing of your flight."

'Cyber-related disruption'

RTX, which owns software program supplier Collins Aerospace, stated it was "conscious of a cyber-related disruption" to its system in "choose airports" and that it hoped to resolve the problem as shortly as doable.

It recognized its Muse software program - which permits completely different airways to make use of the identical check-in desks and boarding gates at an airport, slightly than requiring their very own - because the system that had been affected.

The corporate has but to reveal what went fallacious or how lengthy it expects the outage to final.

Safety alert

On Saturday, Terminal 2 was evacuated following a security alert however was later given the "all-clear".

The evacuation was a "precautionary measure" after police had been alerted to a suspicious merchandise of airline baggage at about 11:30 native time (11:30 BST).