Virgin Australia, American Airlines, and Alaska Airlines are among the handful of carriers that were forced to cancel or delay flights on Friday after Sabre suffered a global IT outage.
Virgin Australia was among the handful of airlines worldwide whose flights were impacted by a global IT systems outage on Friday afternoon. The source of the outage was Sabre, a third-party IT system used by the carriers for check-in, boarding, and flight bookings. American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue were also impacted. Virgin Australia was forced to cancel more than 30 flights on Friday, while a „small number“ of flights on Saturday were cancelled and delayed as the airline worked to „reposition aircraft and crew across [its] network“. „Sabre, which is a third-party IT system we use for check-in, boarding and flight bookings, is investigating the cause of the outage,“ Virgin Australia spokesperson said in a statement.
