A computer failure caused the cancellation of many flights operated by Lufthansa on Wednesday, the German carrier said, without being able to indicate the extent of the failure.
The bulk of landings are suspended at Frankfurt Airport.
Landings were almost entirely suspended on Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany's largest, due to a massive computer failure affecting flights operated by the Lufthansa group, an airport spokesperson told AFP. .
For a whole part of the morning, "no landing was made at Frankfurt airport", he said, adding that only "certain planes can currently land again, in isolation".
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Currently, the airlines of the Lufthansa group are affected by an IT failure.
This causes flight delays and cancellations.
We regret the inconvenience caused to our passengers
, ”said the European leader in air transport on its Twitter account.
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We do not yet have any indication of the nature and number of these disruptions
,” a spokesperson told AFP, also adding that he did not know if Lufthansa was the only carrier affected.
Investigations are underway to determine the cause and extent of the outage, the spokesperson added.
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The websites of the main German airports of Frankfurt and Munich reported several cancellations of short and medium haul flights in the morning.
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