Four Internet cables were damaged last night during work on a train line, causing this outage. At the beginning of the followingnoon, a gradual return to normal was observed.
Operations at Frankfurt Airport are gradually returning to normal following the massive disruption caused by the IT outage at Lufthansa according to operator Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) quoted by a chain German television. A breakdown that blocked almost all landings for several hours.
Since 1:20 p.m., 40 approaches per hour have once more been possible, which is close to current normal operation, a DFS spokeswoman said. According to Fraport, there were more than 200 flight cancellations as of midday. More than half of them were arrivals.
Recall that landings were almost entirely suspended this Wednesday morning at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s largest, due to a massive computer failure affecting flights operated by the Lufthansa group, a spokesperson for the airport said. airport to 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 once more, in isolation”.
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The computer failure on Wednesday caused the cancellation of many flights operated by the German airline group Lufthansa, which also owns Austrian Airlines, Swiss, Brussels Airlines.
“We do not yet have any indication of the nature and number of these disruptions,” a spokesperson for the group told AFP, also adding that he did not know if Lufthansa was the only carrier affected.
In Munich, the country’s second airport “hub”, “isolated flight cancellations” have been decided, its manager said.
This incident was caused by “construction work in the Frankfurt area”, detailed the group on Twitter, which assures “working on a solution”.
Four Internet cables operated by Deutsche Telekom were “damaged” last night during work on a train line, causing this breakdown, a spokesperson for the telecommunications group told AFP.
“Two” of these cables have already been repaired, he added.
According to the German press, Bayern Munich footballers were stuck longer than expected in Paris on Wednesday morning, due to the delay of their plane, the day following their victory once morest PSG in the Champions League.
“We ask our customers flying on domestic routes in Germany to book a train ticket and request a refund,” added the group, which assures that “air activity should return to normal in the evening”.
