Everything is back to normal.
Irish air travel was thrown into a state of disarray on Tuesday night after a technical issue with the Shannon Air Traffic Control system.
A flight radar issue in the west of Ireland caused both Cork and Shannon Airport to stop all flights from coming into their airspace. The significant systems failure resulted in a “zero flow rate” in Irish aerospace.
At 22:45, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) moved to its back-up systems and the restrictions were lifted. Dublin Airport was not affected by the issue.
However, the IAA is now looking into how this could have happened, and issued a statement confirming that an investigation into the technical issue is ongoing.
— IAA (@IAApress) October 2, 2018
This morning, the IAA released a second statement to confirm that their investigation is continuing: “The IAA continues to investigate the technical issue which occurred in Shannon Airport last evening. Services to and from Shannon and Cork are operating normally on the IAA’s Shannon back-up system.”
2/2 – The IAA’s Dublin system was unaffected and Dublin flights are operating normally. The Dublin system is independent of the Shannon system.
— IAA (@IAApress) October 3, 2018
However, anyone flying to or from Shannon or Cork airports in the immediate future is still advised to check the statuses of their flights.
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