London’s Heathrow and Brussel airports tell passengers to expect more delays on Sunday as interruption persists.Major international aviation hubs across Europe, including London’s Heathrow airport and Berlin’s Brandenburg airport, continue to face interruptions in their operations following a suspected cyberattack affecting their check-in systems, causing cancellations and delays for thousands of passengers.Heathrow airport said early on Sunday that it is still trying “to resolve and recover” from the outage of its airline system, while apologising to its customers “who have faced delays”. More than 200,000 passengers transit through the airport, the United Kingdom’s largest and busiest, daily, and in July it recorded more than 7.9 million outbound and inbound passengers.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMeanwhile, as of early Sunday, Berlin airport announced on its website that, due to a “systems outage”, passengers could experience “longer waiting times”.Berlin handled a total of 25.5 million passengers in 2024, with an average daily passenger count of almost 70,000.Cyberattacks and technical disruptions have shaken the transport industry in recent years, including the temporary shutdown of Japan Airlines’ system and American Airlines in December 2024 and the suspected sabotage attack on France’s national rail operator in July 2024 in advance of the Paris Olympics.In the recent aviation attack that hit Europe starting on Friday, Dublin and Cork airports in Ireland also reported experiencing “minor impacts” from “a Europe-wide software issue”.“Some disruption to flights is possible as the day goes on and passengers are advised to contact their airline directly for updates on their flight,” Dublin airport …
