Porter Airlines: Systems slowly coming back online after CrowdStrike outage [Video]

Porter Airlines says it is in the “early stages of returning to normal” operations after a global IT outage forced it to cancel a number of flights on Friday.

“The website will be restored when all systems are back online and automated passenger booking has begun,” the Canadian airline, which operates flights out of Toronto’s two airports, Pearson International and Billy Bishop.

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Porter cancelled all flights until 3 p.m. on Friday after the outage, caused by a software update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike which affected any computer that runs Microsoft Windows and brought IT systems down worldwide.

It’s unclear if Porter flights will resume after 3 p.m.

The disruption to air travel reached beyond just Porter Airline, and some travellers in Toronto were left with their vacation plans up in the air as a result of the outage.

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