A global tech outage is affecting services in the Twin Cities.

That includes air travel, which is struggling to get off the ground Friday morning in the heart of summer travel season.

Early on Friday, the website for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport issued a travel alert as local televison reports showed long lines of travelers:

“Some MSP airlines are beginning to resume operations after morning ground stops due to global technology issues,” according to the statement. “Cancellations and delays could continue throughout the day with slower check-in and wait times. Please contact airlines directly for the latest flight status.”

Flight interruption info is also posted on X at x.com/mspairport.

The FAA addressed the situation on Friday morning as well:

“We continue to work closely with airlines as they work to resume normal operations,” the FAA said in a statement on X. “Ground stops and delays will be intermittent at various airports as the airlines work through residual technology issues. Contact the airlines for more information.”

Flight status can be monitored at nasstatus.faa.gov.

The outage has also impacted services on the ground, including here in Ramsey County:

“A widespread technology outage has affected computer networks around the world,” according to a post published on Ramsey County’s account on X. “Many Ramsey County computers are down as a result, and certain services may not be available at this time. We apologize for this inconvenience.”

The technology outage has grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air around the globe, a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers.

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack — and that a fix was on the way. The company said the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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