Edinburgh Airport suspends all flights after IT crash  

Edinburgh Airport suspended all flights in and out of the nation's capital earlier today due to an IT issue with its air traffic control provider.  

The airport suspended flights this morning, writing on its X (formerly known as Twitter) account that: “Due to an IT issue with our air traffic control provider, no flights are currently operating from Edinburgh Airport."

Edinburgh Airport is Scotland’s busiest airport, serving more than 15 million people last year, making it the sixth busiest airport in the UK.

Flightradar24, a flight tracking website, showed clear airspace around the airport after the announcement, with numerous planes grounded on the runway.

The outage has not affected any other airports in the UK.

Around an hour after its first tweet, Edinburgh Airport posted to its X account that flights were “now resumed” and thanked passengers for their “patience and understanding”. Flights in and out of Edinburgh airport are expected to continue to face delays.

This is one of a number of IT outages that have affected services in Scotland, as the website for the Scottish Parliament was impacted by an issue with the cloud computing provider Cloudflare last month. In October, a “significant Microsoft outage” suspended all voting in the Scottish Parliament, disrupting