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Travelers are waiting for their flight in Frankfurt
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After the flight chaos at Lufthansa caused by a construction work breakdown in Frankfurt am Main, the airline's air traffic returned to normal on Thursday morning.
This was announced by a spokeswoman for the airline in the morning.
There are currently no known flight cancellations or delays.
According to the company, the Lufthansa problems on Wednesday were triggered by construction work on an S-Bahn line in Frankfurt am Main.
According to Deutsche Telekom, four fiber optic cables were severed by an excavator on Tuesday.
Thousands of passengers with connections via the Frankfurt hub were affected by delays and cancellations as a result of the cable damage.
Frankfurt Airport was closed for around three hours and reopened for landings early Wednesday afternoon.
warning strikes on Friday
Numerous Lufthansa subsidiaries were also affected by the failures: At Swiss, for example, almost all machines were able to start.
In Frankfurt, on the other hand, almost nothing worked anymore, only the commitment of the employees still ensures that individual planes can take off: In some cases, the ground staff checked in passengers manually, with paper and pen (read more about the background to the IT failure here).
But now it seems as if the IT problems were fixed just as quickly as they appeared on Wednesday morning.
However, passengers are already threatened with the next adversity: on Friday, numerous flight cancellations are threatening again nationwide.
The Ver.di union has called for a day-long warning strike at most major airports in Germany.
The background are several collective bargaining conflicts.
Ver.di says it wants to strike at the hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and Stuttgart, as well as at the airports in Bremen, Hanover and Dortmund.
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