Overview

• Passenger and baggage systems remained offline on Thursday, producing continued delays and, by evening, at least eight arrivals and seven departures canceled with more possible.
• Airlines and ground handlers added staff and deployed some of their own systems and laptops to keep operations moving as workers settled into manual routines.
• Firefighters and airfield service staff assisted with baggage sorting to reduce the backlog, though the core technical failure persisted.
• Collins Aerospace technicians worked at BER to rebuild infected machines, including reimaging computers targeted in the attack.
• British investigators arrested a suspect connected to the case and later released him under conditions, and the outage also affected Brussels, Dublin and London-Heathrow while other major German airports were not impacted.