Fiumicino Airport, Alitalia computer system block: boarding and departure stops

Discomforts and delays, at least at the time of departures, at Fiumicino airport and also in minor airports in central and southern Italy due to a system crash. 39 IBM information (the one used by the company Alitalia) that currently prevents boarding in planes and the departure of the aircraft already on the runway with pbadengers on board.

Deferred flights

According to information collected at the Leonardo da Vinci airport, the malfunction would have continued since last night. The technicians are working on the system restart while the screens display updates to the public concerning the departures of the flights which are postponed to another time, for the moment always in the morning. Registration services are enhanced and you are manually registering pbadengers. Problems also exist with flight plans that are generally in electronic format, whereas today they are provided in paper form.

The flight to Lamezia is still blocked

My flight to Lamezia Terme should have taken off at 9:20, but we are still in Fiumicino, but the display screen has not been updated yet and it is more than 10 hours, says a pbadenger stopped at the door like so many others. In addition, blocking the system also prevents the physical printing of flight plans and crews do not have to travel to the locations to take possession of the aircraft, as one commander says. Plane to the same travelers.

The flights start to restart

Shortly before 11:00 am Sunday morning, the flights began to restart and traffic began to return to normal, with 60 to 90 minutes late, like that of Brindisi.