Flight operations at various airports in Kerala were disrupted on Friday following the outage of Microsoft’s cloud services.
Three late evening Indigo flights from Thiruvananthapuram have been cancelled: Bangalore (8.55 pm), Hyderabad (10:10 pm), and Chennai (10:45 pm).
Though flights scheduled for morning and afternoon were not cancelled, the shift to manual mode for preparing boarding passes, and the attendant confusions and errors, have caused serious delays.
As a consequence, flights have been delayed from Thiruvananthapuram airport.
Eleven services by different airlines were delayed at Cochin International Airport as the airlines had to resort to manual check-ins. The flights were delayed by 30 minutes to one hour.
Six flights from Cochin airport-6E 695/HYD, IX 1132/1130 BLR, 6E 435/472 BLR, 6E 169/742/ HYD, 6E 144/6922/BLR, 6E 6682/6681 HYD have been cancelled.
Kannur airport authorities said that there was no change in flight timing due to the issue and no flight was cancelled.