An IT outage caused by work on a rail line forced Lufthansa Airlines to cancel and delay hundreds of flights Tuesday, stranding thousands of passengers.
were either canceled or delayed on Wednesday, leaving thousands stranded after the airline Lufthansa experienced an IT failure, according to reports., which serves a hub for the German-based airline. Frankfurt is also one of Europe’s biggest airports."As of this morning, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are affected by an IT outage, caused by construction work in the Frankfurt Region," the airline tweeted."Unfortunately, this has led to flight delays and cancelations.
"We understand the difficulty this situation causes and hope to be able to provide you assistance as soon as possible," Lufthansa tweeted.The IT systems later said all systems were back up and running and that they expect flights to return to normal by Thursday.The airline reportedly blamed the fiasco on engineering that was conducted on a railway line extension by a third-party on Tuesday night.
When the work was being done, a drill allegedly cut through a Deutsche Telekom fiber optic cable bundle. As a result, Lufthansa’s passenger check-in and boarding systems crashed, and air traffic controllers were told to suspend inbound flights.
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