Planes, delays and cancellations. Enav: “Anomalies on the data network”. Hacker attack ruled out"

ROME – Air traffic slowed down. Planes that depart with serious delays and arrive with serious delays at Milan Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio, Rome Fiumicino.

The Italy that flies wakes up with a bad surprise. Since the night, the data transmission network of the ENAV flight controllers, necessary to manage aircraft traffic, has been recording "anoomalies".

Thus a note from ENAV: "Starting from 6:00 am, in consideration of the progressive increase in air traffic and the persistence of anomalies, to continue to guarantee maximum safety of operations, flow regulation measures were introduced, which entail a temporary reduction in the management capacity of aircraft in Italian airspace".

They are not pirates

The situation, therefore, is serious. If it's any consolation, we are faced with a pure and simple technical failure. Enav "malicious activity". In short, we are not victims of a hacker attack.

The anomalies "on the geographical data transmission network in support of air traffic control services throughout the national territory" were found "during the night", the note informs. And "thanks to the activation of the foreseen quota systems, Enav guaranteed the regular management of air traffic until 6:00 this morning, without any reduction in operational capacity".

Then the inconveniences began, in a cascade. At Fiumicino airport, as in the rest of Italy, there are repercussions on flights. At the moment, there are 4 canceled connections (Milan Linate, Riyadh, Tirana and Trieste) and around twenty flights delayed between 15 and 60 minutes.

The monitors

ADR is informing passengers, via the website, airport monitors and its own communication channels, that "due to technical problems with the air traffic control systems on a national scale, delays and cancellations may occur. Passengers are invited to check the status of their flight with the relevant airline".

At Malpensa the departures board indicates delays from half an hour to over two hours, while those for arrivals are more limited. Delays also at Linate airport: from twenty minutes to an hour for arrivals, up to more than an hour for departures.

Problems also at Orio al Serio airport, in the province of Bergamo, where the 6.50 Ryanair for Trapani took off an hour and a half late; an hour and twenty minutes of delay also for the same company's flight to Berlin, while the arrival of the Volotea coming from Olbia at 7.45 is scheduled for 11.18.