BLUE ISLANDS BOOKING SYSTEMS NOW RESTORED

Blue Islands’ customers can once again book flights via its website as the provider of its booking platform has restored full system functionality following an unprecedented outage which affected 50 airlines globally.

Rob Veron, CEO Blue Islands said, “We thank our passengers for their understanding and patience as we suffered this major outage and apologise to all customers for any inconvenience. Occurrences of this magnitude are rare; I’d like to thank our team as well as our airport and ground partners for continuing to deliver our flight operations, ensuring any impact for our customers travelling with us during this period was minimal.”

Between the morning of 8 April, when the outage first occurred, and the evening of 10 April, at which point systems were restored, all 70 flights operated as planned for 3,000 passengers during this period.

Rob added, “Ahead on one of our busiest summers, our flights to exciting destinations across our network including Mallorca, Newcastle and Paris, together with our year-round services such as inter-island and Southampton, can once again be booked up to 12 months in advance.”