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\n Arrivals at Edinburgh Airport. File pic: PA<\/p>\n
One passenger was on a plane when they found out.<\/p>\n
They said: “We boarded our flight and pushed back on time for 8.45 departure, then sat for a while, before the pilot told us what’s happening.<\/p>\n
“He updated us a couple of times, cabin crew are brilliant handing out water etc. and I’m surprised that everyone appears to be upbeat. But then you do wonder how long for, just been told hoping to be in air in 20 minutes.”<\/p>\n
Another passenger told us: “The first news was from the airport announcement as we were half way through boarding, saying the airfield was closed due to air-traffic control down.<\/p>\n
“No one knew what was going on. We’d already been delayed a bit before boarding with no reason. I suspect problems started about 9.00.”<\/p>\n
It comes after an earlier announcement that all flights had been halted.<\/p>\n
“No flights are currently operating from Edinburgh Airport,” the previous statement said.<\/p>\n
“Teams are working on the issue and will resolve as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n
There was no timeframe for recovery initially, Sky News learned.<\/p>\n
It’s understood by PA that the issue was not linked to today’s Cloudflare outage.<\/p>\n
Edinburgh Trams also posted on X, writing: “If you’re travelling with us to @EDI_Airport this morning, please be aware that flights are not currently operating.”<\/p>\n
The airport urged passengers to contact their airline for the latest information on flights.<\/p>\n
An average of 43,000 passengers per day use the airport, which is served by 37 airlines flying to 155 destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All flights were halted at Edinburgh Airport this morning due to an IT issue affecting its air traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-176456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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