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- A Transatlantic Delta flight nearly reached Edinburgh before turning around.
- It diverted to the Irish capital, Dublin, after circling Edinburgh for around 20 minutes.
- Edinburgh Airport halted all flights due to an IT issue with its air traffic control provider.
A Delta Air Lines flight to Scotland had to divert after an IT issue halted operations at its destination.
Delta Flight 208 took off from New York on Thursday evening and was supposed to land at Edinburgh Airport around 9 a.m. local time.
However, after a six-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean, the Boeing 767 then spent about 20 minutes circling just south of the Scottish capital.
It then changed course for Ireland, landing in Dublin just after 10 a.m.
"Due to an IT issue with our air traffic control provider, no flights are currently operating from Edinburgh Airport," the airport said in a statement on X.
Data from Flightradar24 shows 11 flights bound for Edinburgh have been diverted, mostly to nearby Glasgow.
At around 10:45 a.m. local time, less than an hour after the Delta flight landed in Dublin, flights resumed from Edinburgh Airport.
Delta could not immediately be reached for comment outside US working hours.
Have your travel plans been affected by the Edinburgh airport IT outage? Get in touch with this reporter via email at [email protected] or Signal at syme.99.
