00:00Let's speak to our correspondent in Spain to find out how the country there was impacted.
00:04Sarah Moore standing by at Madrid's main international airport.
00:07Hello to you, Sarah. What is the situation there?
00:14Well, there was considerable more chaos this morning,
00:16but there's still a lot of really a miserable start for many passengers
00:22hoping to start their holidays or end them.
00:24Behind me, Barajas has normally on a day like this,
00:28a Friday in July, 1,200 flights.
00:32Many of the passengers found that they couldn't get onto their flights
00:36because of those IT systems being down.
00:40It principally hit the check-in system
00:44and also the Tannoys, the information system.
00:47And all the passengers earlier on today
00:51were actually receiving handwritten boarding cards.
00:55Now, the passengers have said to me that in many cases
00:59they missed their connection flights.
01:01They missed, were unable to get through in time to get on their flights.
01:08And so although IANA is saying that all their
01:12most of their flights were operational, that the airlines like Iberia
01:17are saying that their flights are delayed, but still operational.
01:21As some of the passengers have had a very poor start to their holidays.
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