Airspace ‘closed until further notice’ after computer outages at airports

The airports of Geneva and Zürich, among the main ones in Switzerland, were paralyzed on Wednesday morning due to a computer failure at the air traffic controller Skyguide, indicates a tweet from Geneva airport and the ATS-Keystone agency. While take-offs and landings were suspended until 11 a.m. initially, the Skygide air traffic control service indicates that Swiss airspace is now “closed until further notice”.

“A technical breakdown occurred at Skyguide, the Swiss air traffic control service, in the early hours of the morning, which is why Swiss airspace was closed to traffic for safety reasons,” the statement said. from Skyguide.

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