Global Microsoft Outage Causes Problems for Companies Around the World

Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puenteassured that there was a failure in the operating system Windowfrom Microsoftdid not cause this Friday”big problems“at airports and that the suspension affected “no more than” a hundred flights out of about 4,000 operated Ena.

The minister made this statement in Vitoria, where he visited the work of the logistics center AdifAnd in Polanco (Cantabria), where he visited the works on the new section of the A-67 motorway in the afternoon, after being asked about the massive computer shutdown that has affected companies, banks, hospitals, industries and institutions.

“Fortunately, in Spain the consequences were much less severe,” the minister stressed, explaining this.when the system failure episode is already over“Ena reported that they had succeeded.”about 4,000 flights with no more than a hundred stops“, and that “most of them were related to the activities of the airlines themselves.”

As noted, the incidents mainly affected Aena’s billing systems, which have been restored.”little by little“throughout the morning.

Fortunately, in Spain the consequences were much less severe.

“We I’m getting better little by little “Aena systems. It mainly affected our accounts, but there are no major problems in the operation of airports,” Puente said, adding that flight delays were recorded and that the problem did not have any impact on rail traffic.

In this sense, he wanted to congratulate Ena and the airport staff, who “had to work in some very difficult circumstances“, in some cases, “handling boarding and billing manually to prevent travelers from being impacted on those dates.”

“There was a worker who said that he had to hand-written over 200 boarding passes in a very short time. “It was done manually, we had to carry out the operation as it was done 40 years ago, but it was carried out, and for this I want to congratulate Ena, who was on the front line from 7:00 in the morning, so that the incidence of disease was minimal,” said the head of Transport.

The minister explained that the incident occurred because of a Microsoft-related antivirus, which is widely deployed around the world, used by private and public companies and is one of the most reliable,”did an update this evening“.

“Fortunately, in the case of Spain, the impact is less than in other places“, he added.