Lufthansa IT meltdown strands thousands of passengers

By Ilona Wissenbach and Hakan Ersen

Technology
Wednesday, 15 Feb 2023
6:08 PM MYT

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FILE PHOTO: Lufthansa logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -An IT failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers and forced flights to Germany's busiest airport to be cancelled or diverted on Wednesday, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables.

More than 200 flights were cancelled in Frankfurt, a vital international transit hub and one of Europe's biggest airports, a spokesperson for operator Fraport said.

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