Lufthansa IT failure leaves thousands of passengers stranded
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#68WPS)
Outage causes flight delays and cancellations after cables damaged during construction work
Thousands of passengers worldwide have been stranded after an IT fault at Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa caused flight delays and disruption at airlines across the group.
The company said the problem was caused by damage to several of Deutsche Telekom's glass-fibre cables during construction work in Frankfurt. Repairs would take until Wednesday afternoon, Lufthansa said.
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