Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, MAHB operations unaffected by global IT outage

19 Jul 2024 • 5:25 PM MYT
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) services were not affected by the global IT outage, which resulted in major travel disruptions in Europe, the United States, and Australian airports.

However, local low-cost airline AirAsia said that while the airline is experiencing an in-house system outage, there have been no flight cancellations.

Similarly, it is understood that Malaysia Airlines is not affected.

While there seem to be no cancellations as of now, flights to destinations affected by the global outage could affect Malaysia Airlines’ flights.

There have been news reports coming from all over the globe pertaining to travel disruptions.

The reports cited issues linked to the global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides penetration workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence and cyberattack services.

— Bernama