Hong Kong International Airport back to normal operations, Chinese state media says
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Airline employees manually check-in passengers at Hong Kong International Airport, on July 19.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
BEIJING - Hong Kong International Airport has resumed normal operations, Chinese state media said on July 20, after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long outages in global computer systems.
The massive IT outage on July 19
Airlines’ passenger check-in systems, which had been affected by the global outage, have returned to normal, CCTV said in a Weibo post, citing Airport Authority Hong Kong.
The airport authority had said on July 19 that affected airlines had switched to manual check-in and flight operations had not been affected.
Globally, 5,000 out of 110,000 scheduled commercial flights were cancelled on July 19. REUTERS
