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Amsterdam power outage, Flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport were snarled Friday morning after a power outage in and around the Dutch metropolis.

The power outage hit around 4:15 a.m. ET (9:15 a.m. local time), prompting Schiphol airport officials to warn of "severe disruptions" to flight schedules there. The power was out for about 90 minutes, with most flights canceled or diverted during that time.

Amsterdam is Europe's fifth-busiest airport and is the biggest hub for Dutch carrier KLM. Schiphol officials said power had been restored around 5:45 a.m. ET (10:45 a.m. local) time and that "air traffic will slowly be continued again."

Still, customers traveling to or through Amsterdam Friday should be prepared for disruptions as the airport works to resume a normal schedule.

The Guardian of London also warns that "public transport across the Netherlands was affected, with trains cancelled and passengers stuck in lifts, trams and subways."

It was not clear exactly how many Amsterdam flights had been affected because of the outage, but passengers at Schiphol Airport took to social media with images of a largely powerless airport.

Amsterdam power outage, The Amsterdam region suffered a power blackout of more than five hours on Friday that hit a million households, forced flights to divert from Schiphol airport and disrupted national public transport networks.
After more than two hours without power, lights switched back on in the Amsterdam financial district and gradually returned to cities across the province of Noord Holland, home to a sixth of the country's 17 million people.

"The power outage brought trams and metros to a standstill, traffic lights went out and people were trapped in lifts," the city of Amsterdam said in a statement. There were no reports of injuries or security problems.

Power outages on this scale are rare in Europe. In December 2013, storm damage deprived 240,000 homes of electricity in France, mostly in coastal Brittany and Normandy.

The most recent region-wide outage was on November 4, 2006, when 15 million people in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal lost power, according to the International Energy Agency.
Travellers faced huge delays on trains on Friday as computer systems were put back online and stations filled with passengers.

Major delays were also reported at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, where all flights were briefly suspended and inbound planes diverted to regional airports. Amsterdam-bound airliners were delayed on the tarmac on airports throughout Europe.
Two hours after the start of blackout, grid operator TenneT said on its twitter feed that it had restored power to its high voltage network in the densely populated provi