The airline's spokesperson had said at around 8 am, "SITA server is down. Due to which flight operation is affected. Our technical teams are on work and soon system may be recovered."
Air India system restored: AI CMD
Air India servers down
2019-04-27 11:48:49
Air India system restored
2019-04-27 08:10:15
Air India system restored: AI CMD
-
#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019
New Delhi: Hundreds of Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours, the airline said Saturday.
According to airline sources, the software, which is of Atlanta-based SITA company, was not functioning approximately from 3 am to 9 am Saturday. Consequently, boarding passes could not be issued at major airports across the world and various flights were delayed.
"The system has been restored. It has begun functioning. We regret the inconvenience that passengers had to face," said the national carrier's chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani.
"We are trying to regularise all the flights for the day. But there would be some delay in flights today. I am expecting a delay of around two hours. Because in the morning, the whole system got disturbed," he added.
Lohani said that Air India uses a passenger services system, which looks after check-in, baggage and reservation, of the SITA company and "it was taken for maintenance today morning" by them.
"After that, there were some technical glitches, because of which, the system was not functional. There were some major problems at big airports such as Delhi," he added.
Many passengers vented their ire on social media as the airline could not issue them the boarding passes on Saturday morning.
A Dr Sonal Saxena tweeted at 7.20 am, "Utter chaos. Air India systems not working at Delhi since 3 am. All flights grounded and delayed. No check-ins and boarding."
A similar incident took place on June 23 last year when a technical glitch in the airline's check-in software delayed 25 of its flights across India.
The airline had tweeted on June 23, "Due to unexpected network connectivity issues at SITA #Atlanta # Datacenter, which had a #worldwide impact, 25 flights were delayed from 1210 hrs to 1510 hrs on #Airindia network. Operations are normal now (sic)."
2019-04-27 11:48:49
Air India system restored
The airline's spokesperson had said at around 8 am, "SITA server is down. Due to which flight operation is affected. Our technical teams are on work and soon system may be recovered."
2019-04-27 08:10:15
Air India system restored: AI CMD
-
#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019#FlyAI: Our server system SITA, which faced a temporary glitch, this morning was restored at 0845hrs. Air India senior executives, including CMD, Directors, Station Heads rushed to airports to take control of situation & facilitate pax. Flts rescheduled to minimise inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/Np0DgRbQIV
— Air India (@airindiain) April 27, 2019
New Delhi: Hundreds of Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours, the airline said Saturday.
According to airline sources, the software, which is of Atlanta-based SITA company, was not functioning approximately from 3 am to 9 am Saturday. Consequently, boarding passes could not be issued at major airports across the world and various flights were delayed.
"The system has been restored. It has begun functioning. We regret the inconvenience that passengers had to face," said the national carrier's chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani.
"We are trying to regularise all the flights for the day. But there would be some delay in flights today. I am expecting a delay of around two hours. Because in the morning, the whole system got disturbed," he added.
Lohani said that Air India uses a passenger services system, which looks after check-in, baggage and reservation, of the SITA company and "it was taken for maintenance today morning" by them.
"After that, there were some technical glitches, because of which, the system was not functional. There were some major problems at big airports such as Delhi," he added.
Many passengers vented their ire on social media as the airline could not issue them the boarding passes on Saturday morning.
A Dr Sonal Saxena tweeted at 7.20 am, "Utter chaos. Air India systems not working at Delhi since 3 am. All flights grounded and delayed. No check-ins and boarding."
A similar incident took place on June 23 last year when a technical glitch in the airline's check-in software delayed 25 of its flights across India.
The airline had tweeted on June 23, "Due to unexpected network connectivity issues at SITA #Atlanta # Datacenter, which had a #worldwide impact, 25 flights were delayed from 1210 hrs to 1510 hrs on #Airindia network. Operations are normal now (sic)."
Intro:Body:
Conclusion:
Air India servers down, flight services delayed across world
New Delhi: Several Air India flights across the world were affected on Saturday morning as company’s servers faced technical issue. According to reports, due to problems with SITA servers Air India flights were disrupted from 3.30 am.
More details awaited.
Conclusion:
Last Updated : Apr 27, 2019, 12:06 PM IST
