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computer failureLufthansa no longer lands in Frankfurt, many flights canceled
Air traffic was disrupted on Wednesday in Germany. Flights to and from Switzerland were also affected.
Landings were suspended at Frankfurt Airport and flights already in the air were diverted.
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A computer failure on Wednesday caused the cancellation of many flights operated by Lufthansa, the German carrier said. “Currently, the airlines of the Lufthansa group are affected by a computer 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.
Almost all landings are no longer authorized at Frankfurt airport to prevent it from being saturated with parked planes. The situation does not only concern Lufthansa flights The flights that had already taken off were diverted to those of Nuremberg, Cologne or Dusseldorf. Those who had not yet left have been cancelled.
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 after their victory against PSG in the Champions League.
Impacts in Geneva and Zurich
Switzerland is also affected. The Lufthansa Geneva-Frankfurt flight scheduled for 1:40 p.m. this Wednesday has already been canceled. In Zurich, the flight to Frankfurt at 11:15 suffered the same fate. Two flights of the company Swiss, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, to Frankfurt and from Geneva and Zurich have also been canceled.
Lufthansa invites all passengers who had to take an internal flight in Germany to “book a train ticket and request a refund afterwards”. At the end of the morning, the company was able to specify the origin of the breakdown: it is damage to a cable caused by a railway construction site in the Frankfurt region.
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