Flights out of COU taking off as scheduled amid widespread IT outage, airport says

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Columbia Regional Airport says all flights out of COU are taking off as scheduled amid a widespread IT outage.

On Friday morning, United, American and Delta Airlines asked the Federal Aviation Administration to ground all flights around the world due to the outage.

Mike Parks with the Columbia Regional Airport says fights are planned as scheduled but he is unable to speak on behalf of American Airlines.

According to the COU flight status page, no flights in and out of the airport have been canceled or delayed. The page shows a flight from Chicago to Columbia landed at 6:06 a.m. Friday.

The worldwide outage was reported Friday morning and is affecting airports, airlines, banks and other industries that use Microsoft-based services.

American cybersecurity technology firm, Crowdstrike, says it's responsible for the issues and is working on a fix.

However, the company says the outage is not due to a cyberattack but is rather an issue with software.

According to FlightAware, over 2,000 flights were delayed Friday morning within, into and out of the U.S.