A man was issued a handwritten boarding pass amid the ongoing chaos caused by Microsoft IT outages.
The pass was issued today (19 July) at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana.
Due to travel to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport this morning, Akshay Kothali was handed a pass by the airline IndiGo.
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It details his flight information, with the details penned in ink, reports Need To Know.
Akshay shared the picture on X, where it was viewed more than 2.6 million times and garnered 29,000 likes.
One person commented: “We are going back to the stone age!!!!!!!”
“Damn. this is a nice souvenir tho,” said another user.
Someone else added: “Sometimes, the old-school way is still the best way when technology lets us down.”
“This is insane!!!” another person wrote.
One user commented: “Wow back to pen paper.”
“Back to basics,” agreed another viewer.
Someone else said: “Sometimes you just gotta rely on people, not machines.”
“Wow….that’s gone atleast 20 years backwards…in just 1 hr,” said one shocked user.
Major IT outages are hitting industries across the world, including airlines, amid the ongoing issue.
Crowdstrike issued a statement saying it is “not a security incident or cyberattack”, and said the issue is a result of a defect in a content update for Windows.
