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Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timi

by dtf 10mo ago

Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!

johncolanduoni 10mo ago
Maybe the little plane icons on the ATC screens are a PNG hosted on some Cloudflare domain.
- AmbroseBierce 10mo ago
  They laughed at my base64 encoded icons, now there, enjoy your downtime.
- huflungdung 10mo ago
  [dead]
- Popeyes 10mo ago
  Fontawesome?
  - Maxion 10mo ago
    minified js depependency loaded from some CDN?
- Nextgrid 10mo ago
  Not a safety-critical system but I know passenger information screens in at least some airports are just full-screen browsers displaying a SaaS-hosted webpage.
ErroneousBosh 10mo ago
Annoyingly I wanted to fly a parcel from Edinburgh up to Stornoway, but it's looking like I'd be quicker driving the seven hours up to the ferry terminal myself.
hoherd 10mo ago
These days planes got problems with all kinds of clouds.
hexbin010 10mo ago
BBC reporting that the airport stated it was unrelated
jan_Sate 10mo ago
That's odd. Why would you want to rely on Cloudflare for airport stuffs?