Microsoft outage grounds 36 flights at Hyderabad Airport

As many as 36 domestic flights were cancelled at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) on Friday following Microsoft Azure outage that disrupted airline operations nationwide. The cancelled flights reportedly included 19 departures and 17 arrivals and belonged to Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Cochin, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Raipur and Jaipur routes.

Operations of major carriers including IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India, and SpiceJet, were significantly affected, causing considerable inconvenience to passengers.



Flyers endured long queues, were not able to check-in their bags and struggled to receive boarding passes. They rushed to make enquiries about about refunds/ potential service restorations.

In response to these concerns, RGIA on ‘X,’ posted an advisory. “Due to the global IT outage, services of airlines have been impacted. We are closely working with all our stakeholders to minimize the inconvenience to our flyers. You may please get in touch with the airline concerned for updates on your flight information. We thank you for your support and understanding.”