Aer Lingus has issued an update after the Irish airline was forced to cancel all flights to the UK and Europe from Dublin after 2pm because of a major technical failure. The company blamed an 'incident with a network provider' that affected its systems for check-in and boarding, as well as impacting its website.
In an update at 6.45pm today (Saturday, September 10), Aer Lingus said: "Aer Lingus sincerely apologises to customers for the severe disruption caused today by the unavailability of key systems for check-in, boarding and our website. This system outage was caused by a break in connectivity in services from a UK network provider.
"The break in connectivity has now been restored and we are taking steps to bring all of our systems back online. Aer Lingus had to cancel 51 flights today, mainly to and from Dublin / European & UK destinations.
