Many hoping to beat the rush at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport for the start of Quebec’s construction holidays have been met with delays and cancellations caused by a global tech outage.
The large outage has grounded fights and left media outlets and several banks offline.
Later Friday morning, systems had started to come back online, but the damage was already done at YUL, where several flights scheduled for Friday morning were cancelled or delayed.
All Porter Airlines flights were cancelled in the morning.
“A global IT outage is causing technical issues for some air carriers,” said the YUL airport on social media. “Flight delays and cancellations are possible. For specific flight information, please contact your airline directly.”
The computer outage has caused disruptions to flights to American destinations from Montreal.
Many companies including Microsoft 365, Visa, and others have been affected.
