Global IT outage: Malaysia Airlines, Firefly flights for July 19 unaffected, says MAG

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) confirms that the flight schedules for Malaysia Airlines and Firefly for Friday (July 19) remain unaffected, and no flights have been cancelled due to the service outage by its service provider.

However, it said this issue had impacted Firefly’s booking and online check-in systems.

"Firefly is working closely with the service provider to resolve the issue and restore the system as quickly as possible,” MAG said in a statement on Friday.

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There have been news reports from all over the globe of travel disruptions.

The reports cited issues linked to the global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides penetration workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence and cyberattack services.- Bernama