Flights were heavily disrupted at the three Balearic airports on Friday morning following a computer breakdown which affected more than 500 flights at Palma, Ibiza and Minorca airports. The computer problems led the airport authorities to introduce flights restrictions which led to long air delays.
Chaos at Balearic airports following computer glitch
The number of flights affected by delays exceeds 500 in Palma, Minorca and Ibiza
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I worked in IT for many years, even during the year 2000 expected meltdown, and the biggest problem all companies suffer from is the lack of testing when updating existing systems as it is an unwanted cost to them. I would put money on this is being a faulty update.