Cyberattack grounds flights at European airports: Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin hit

Cyberattack halts flights at Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin airports. [https://invezz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cyberattack.webp] A cyberattack jolted Europe’s travel scene early Saturday, leaving airports scrambling and passengers anxious. At Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin, check-in monitors flickered out, and flights were grounded. It wasn’t business as usual as lines snaked across terminals while airport staff scrambled to figure out workarounds. The trouble came out of nowhere, hitting just as the weekend rush began. Travellers found themselves stranded, some sleeping on bags or stuck in endless lines. Officials quickly admitted that the outage wasn’t just a technical glitch. Officials described the incident as a full-blown cyberattack, with no clear timeline yet for when normal operations would resume. CHAOS IN TERMINALS: WHAT AUTHORITIES SAID At Heathrow, the departure boards lit up with urgent warnings. Staff faced a tough challenge switching to manual check-ins and boarding. Lines stretched longer than usual, passengers showed frustration, and airport employees worked overtime trying to keep things moving. Heathrow advised travelers to arrive no earlier than three hours before long-haul flights and two hours before domestic ones as an attempt to ease…