Microsoft outage disrupts aviation in India; other services unaffected

A worldwide disruption in Microsoft’s Windows and cloud services severely affected industries from travel to finance across the globe, including the operations of Indian aviation companies. In India and elsewhere, numerous flights were either delayed or cancelled leading to complete chaos.

IndiGo, India’s largest airline, reported the cancellation of at least 192 flights over Friday and Saturday. Ground staff airports in the country were forced to issue handwritten boarding passes due to the outage.