Chaos at Dover Crossing, Microsoft Crowdstrike global IT outage creates second day of travel nightmare

“The more visibility we have, the better. But we are here to serve people who want to travel.

“So I would say to displaced airport passengers, ‘Come on. We have the capacity.’”

P&O Ferries said on social media: “We understand that due to the high volume of traffic, there is congestion on the roads to and within the port.

“Rest assured, we will honor your booking and transfer you to the next available crossing upon arrival at our check-in desks.”

According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, 6,855 flights were canceled worldwide on Friday, or 6.2 percent of all scheduled flights.

There were 1,639 cancelled flights worldwide as of 10am on Saturday morning, including 23 flights departing from UK airports, representing 0.9 per cent of all scheduled flights to the UK, and 25 flights arriving in the UK.

In addition to the problems at ferries and airports, the system failure is also continuing to cause problems for the UK rail network.

Ticket machines are no longer working, preventing customers from making purchases or collecting pre-purchased passes. In addition, some automatic barriers can no longer scan QR codes.

Professor Ciaran Martin, former director of the National Cyber ​​Security Centre (NCSC), said that while “the worst” of the outage was over, countries would “have to learn to deal” with future failures.

According to the NCSC, the affected organizations must “take supplier measures”.

It added that it also warned of “an increase in related phishing” as “opportunistic malicious actors attempt to take advantage of the situation”.