A failure in the computer systems of the airline Lufthansa triggered flight cancellations and delays at the Frankfurt airport on Wednesday, as well as missed connections for passengers in transit.
Lufthansa reported that the fault occurred on Tuesday when an excavator, which was carrying out repair work on a section of the Frankfurt railway, cut several fiber optic cables from the transport company on Tuesday. Deutsche Telecom.
The computer systems of all the airlines of the group lufthansa they stopped working from this morning, preventing the boarding of passengers and in some areas of the city Deutsche Telekom customers have been left without internet and without telephone.
Two data cables Deutsche Telekom for companies are still damaged and the flight protection authorities have diverted flights from Frankfurt to other airports such as Nuremberg, Cologne or Düsseldorf.
German telecommunications company and lufthansa They work to fix the problem quickly. But, with international flights affected and unable to land at Frankfurt airport, travelers in transit are also seeing connections affected.
Due to the cancellation of all domestic flights in Germany, lufthansa has asked passengers to travel by train.
As a consequence of the breakdown in the computer systems of lufthansa Problems have also been detected at the Munich airport, although with no record of cancellations.
Source: EFE
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