Lufthansa tech meltdown strands thousands of passengers
An IT failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passenger s and forced flights to Germany’s busiest airport to be canceled or diverted Wednesday, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. More than 200 flights were canceled in Frankfurt, a vital international transit hub and one of Europe’s biggest airports, a spokesperson for operator Fraport said. Lufthansa later said its IT systems were rebooting and that flight departures had resumed from Frankfurt. The carrier expects the situation to stabilize by Wednesday evening. Scores of flights were also delayed, data from FlightAware showed. Photos and videos from several German airports showed thousands of passengers waiting to be checked in. “We wanted to go to the wizard convention in England, in Blackpool. And now we are stranded here,” Alexander Straub said at Frankfurt Airport. “We have eaten some pretzels and are still waiting,” said his fellow passenger Marc Weidel. Lufthansa and Ge...