samir hussein who is at delhi airport says they were given blank boarding cards and asked to fill inack and with and also entered manually. samir hussein was saying after going through security there was one person at terminal three who was in charge of updating a whiteboard by hand with the gate information. so of course these electronic boards in airports tell you which gate to go to. so in delhi they have gone back to. so in delhi they have gone back to having a whiteboard and writing the flight number and what gate it is at. samir hussein saying that at the gate where the plane especially from there are no agents and nor is there a plane. the gate across from there a plane. the gate across from the one i out there as a captain and crew waiting for ground crew to start the boarding process but because everything here is being done manually things are very slow. but the airport is open. so the bit you can see on your screen from delhi airport as people queue. our correspond in their sane everything having to be done manually. she has sent us a picture which you can see on the bbc n

let us head back to india because i was mentioning that our correspondence samir hussein is in delhi see these live pictures from outside. and has had trouble. just take us through what your process of checking in was at the airport today. 50 checking in was at the airport toda . checking in was at the airport toda _ ., checking in was at the airport toda . ., , ., today. so we have been at the airort today. so we have been at the airport for— today. so we have been at the airport for a — today. so we have been at the airport for a little _ today. so we have been at the airport for a little over - today. so we have been at the airport for a little over two - today. so we have been at the i airport for a little over two hours and once we arrived, travelling on vacation with my family, were a team of seven can myself. we arrived and it was quite a chaotic scene at the airport. it wasn't very clear what was happening. when we finally managed to get an understanding that the systems were down, our understanding at that point was just only located towards this one particular domestic carr

global it situation and we had this report from indira gandhi international airport in india from samir husseinhi to kolkata with my family, and we are absolutely affected by this global outage. and what they're doing here is manually entering everybody�*s passenger information. now, complicating issues for myself is that my children don't have seat assignments just yet, so we're trying to work that out. now, if you want to just take a look at my boarding card, you can see that all the information had to be entered in manually. the same thing for baggage tags. they were all entered in manually, so it's anyone's guess whether or not i'm actually going to get the luggage at the end of this trip. but i will say that in terms of mood, people are getting a little bit snippy now. but overall, most people are just taking this all in stride given that it is a global outage. yes, samira hussain, absolutely a global outage and we are hearing on the situation in australia and that is what is happening in delhi and we know turkish airlines have cancelled flights and the us airline united airlines is resumi