LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — People across the globe started their day on the wrong foot as we all navigated a worldwide cyber outage.
The effects could be seen at airports, banks and many businesses across the globe.
The same could be said for Little Rock as Clinton National Airport is recovering from the outage — however, the airport is still dealing with flight delays and cancellations.
Flight delays and cancellations have been pretty common as of late. Despite that, when a global cyber outage is behind the flight complications, it has a major ripple effect and its one that Clinton National Airport is experiencing much like airports all around the country.
"It was the typical, 'Oh, this is normal' to 'Oh this is definitely not normal,'" said Dan Carpenter, a traveler at Clinton National Airport.
Carpenter spent Thursday night and Friday morning trying to get back home to New York, but ran into a lot of flight delays.
"We didn't even come here other than to catch a flight," Carpenter said.
Even though Carpenter is a frequent traveler, he said he hasn't experienced something of this magnitude.
"This is kind of a different beast for us, so I don't know," he said. "We're figuring it out as we go."
Shane Carter with Clinton National Airport said he expects delays to linger for days.
"We've had several delays and a few cancellations with the global technology outage," Carter said. "Thankfully passengers, for the most part, have been very understanding."
Carter also said the impact goes beyond just airline operations.
"Food service, HMS host, our vendor that operates the restaurants here in the airport, their computer systems have been out also. Thankfully, they're back up now," he said.
On top of dealing with the outage, Carter said a fire alarm malfunctioned Friday morning too.
"A lot of passengers had to be re-screened in addition to the other situation going on and we certainly appreciate their understanding with that," he said.
In the latest update from the airport, there have been 30 delayed flights and at least 6 cancellations, but all food services are open.
Carter encourages all travelers to double check their flight status before coming to the airport.