Aer Lingus has announced that it is cancelling all flights out of Dublin Airport to the UK and Europe this afternoon due to IT issues.
Earlier, thousands of passengers faced 'huge queues' today after the airline reported IT issues, which began at 9am this morning. In an update, a spokesman for Aer Lingus said that due to a "major incident" with a network provider, the company's cloud-based systems enabling check-in, boarding and our website are currently unavailable.
He said: "Unfortunately, this is causing severe disruption to Aer Lingus services today. Consequently, all flights originally scheduled to depart from Dublin Airport for European and United Kingdom destinations from 2.00pm onwards today have had to be cancelled.
