Thousands of air passengers are currently stranded across Europe. An IT fault at Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa has caused flight delays and disruption on all the airlines they own.
“There is a group-wide IT system failure,” a Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters news agency. Operations are not expected to stabilise until Wednesday evening.
Photos and videos from several airports across Germany show chaos, with thousands of stranded passengers awaiting news. Passengers reported on social media that the company was having to organise the boarding of planes manually with pen and paper as it couldn’t process luggage digitally.
All domestic flights have been cancelled and international flights have also been affected by the outage.
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