Porter Hardest Hit Canadian Airline in Global IT Failure, Banks ‘Reviewing the Situation’

Porter Airlines staff direct travellers at Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto on Friday, July 19, 2024. Porter Airlines delayed flights as a global tech outage affected flights at the airline. The Canadian Press/Christopher Katsarov

A global IT outage on July 19 disrupted flights, banking, and more internationally, but Canadian airlines reported they were relatively unaffected.

Porter Airlines was an exception. The airline cancelled flights until 3 p.m. July 19 due to the outages, according to an update posted to platform X. Air Canada and WestJet said their operations were not impacted. Sunwing and Flair operations also remained unaffected, said Toronto Pearson International Airport in a post on X.