UK airports and airlines have been hit with chaos following the Microsoft outage today.

The IT disaster has led to huge queues at airports across the UK, with holidaymakers at Gatwick reportedly unable to check-in.

It comes as Britain braces for its busiest day for air travel since before the Covid pandemic, with millions of families preparing for their summer breaks.

Various Microsoft services in the UK, US, Australia, Japan, Germany and New Zealand have all faced tech issues in the last few hours.

It has hit major brands around the world including finance firms, and technology companies and has forced Sky News to go off-air.

Friday’s Sky News breakfast show was wiped off computer and TV screens with a statement apologising for the “interruption” being shown.

Cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike say they have identified the issue behind the global outage as a flawed anti-viral update.

The firm is reportedly used by Microsoft to handle various updates to their systems.

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