Black day for Lufthansa. While the German airline had to delay and cancel hundreds of flights due to a computer system malfunction, it has caused serious inconvenience to thousands of passengers on scheduled flights today. The company confirmed the issue through a spokesperson and assured that a team of technicians is working to restore service as soon as possible.
The error affected the systems used for check-in, boarding and baggage handling, resulting in massive back up of aircraft and passengers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s largest. The company has had to stop all its flights, continuing with constant cancellations, and the staff are urging people booked with domestic flights to find alternative solutions, such as trains.
Through its web channels, Lufthansa encourages passengers to check the status of their flights through the company’s app to check if they have been affected by cancellations or delays. In this case, the company strongly advises against going to airports where people who are already stranded are paralyzed. The fear of the German authorities is that Frankfurt airport will be completely paralyzed: planes are not landing or taking off at this time. A chaos encompassing all air transport in Germany (and beyond) with dozens of flights diverted to Nuremberg, Cologne or Düsseldorf airports. The issue affects Lufthansa and all companies associated with the company, including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss.
Construction work on a railway line in Frankfurt is responsible for a major IT failure that disrupted operations worldwide. This was communicated by Lufthansa and announced that several fiber optic cables from telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom will be cut by an excavator. Local news portal Hessenschau said there were telecommunications outages affecting the Frankfurt metropolitan area. As mentioned, the issue has put air transport in a deadlock in Germany, but it will have repercussions outside Germany’s borders as well, creating a domino effect that will encompass other countries affected by delays and cancellations, including Italy.
Source: Today IT
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