Lufthansa

A GROUP-WIDE IT system failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday (Feb 15), which the German airline blamed on underground ...

Thousands of airline passengers were stranded in Germany and around the world after a severed telecommunications cable knocked out Lufthansa's digital ...

On Tuesday, the Swedish airline SAS, which is a member of the Star Alliance airline network with Lufthansa, reported that its website and app had been targeted by hackers, causing the services to go down for several hours. “Due to the significant damage and situation on the site, the repair will be extremely difficult.” But earlier in the day, Lufthansa apologized to travelers and encouraged them to rebook flights scheduled for Wednesday. More than half the canceled flights were destined for Frankfurt Airport, leaving passengers who had been booked on those flights stranded. For Thursday, the airline said, it expected most flights to be on schedule. Frankfurt is Lufthansa’s main hub in Germany, and the international airport is the country’s largest.

German flag carrier Lufthansa suffered a major computer outage on Wednesday, the company announced, triggering a global wave of travel disruption as flights are ...

"There are still flights in the air, they will not be brought to the ground," a spokesperson for the company flights were [delayed or canceled](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/01/11/all-domestic-flight-departures-paused-amid-faa-system-outage-heres-what-we-know/?sh=2e339439765d) in January following a system outage at the Federal Aviation Administration, a British Airways tech fault [grounded](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-26/british-airways-it-outage-grounds-planes-cyber-attack-ruled-out) more than 100 flights in February and Scandinavian airline SAS was hit by a [cyberattack](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/airline-sas-suffers-cyber-attack-205942172.html) on Tuesday. [bailed](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/26/lufthansa-9bn-bailout-german-government-coronavirus-flights) out by the German government. Its fortunes have since changed dramatically and the company [staged](https://www.ft.com/content/b5cc2607-6120-4e7d-9810-889d03835ad9) a massive turnaround last year. The airline has not used the term in its statements nor confirmed it to other outlets. Lufthansa is Europe’s biggest carrier and operates around 700 aircraft, according to Bloomberg.

It is unclear whether Lufthansa's IT issues are linked to a cyber attack targeting Scandinavian airline SAS this week. PHOTO: REUTERS. Updated. 9 hours ago.

According to the Frankfurt Airport website, reports of Lufthansa flight disruptions started from around 8am (local time), and about 120 inbound and outbound flights at the airport were cancelled. In a tweet, Lufthansa said: “As of this morning, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are affected by an IT outage, caused by construction work in the Frankfurt region.” Passengers said on social media that the failure had forced the company to organise the boarding of planes with pen and paper and that it was unable to digitally process passengers’ luggage.

"Lufthansa has adjusted the 2023 summer flight schedule from Frankfurt and Munich," the paper quoted a Lufthansa spokesperson as saying. The exact extent could ...

Hundreds of Lufthansa flights were grounded or diverted at Frankfurt airport due to a technical glitch at Lufthansa, Reuters reported.

[flights across the US came to a standstill](https://www.airport-technology.com/news/us-faa-system-malfunction/) after technical issues in the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) computer system. The technical problems also led to the cancellation of a flight to Frankfurt from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. [Lufthansa](https://www.globaldata.com/company-profile/deutsche-lufthansa-ag) flights were grounded or diverted at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, due to a technical glitch at Lufthansa, [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-says-flight-personnel-alert-system-not-processing-updates-after-outage-2023-01-11/) reported.

Lufthansa has cancelled more than 1300 flights on Friday, including all flights at the Frankfurt and Munich hub airports, as a result of strike action, ...

Deutsche Lufthansa AG will cancel at least 1200 flights for Friday due to strikes at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs, the latest disruption to hit ...

Passengers are expected to be unable to depart these airports due to local strike action. shutterstock_1802078938 Photo: Markus Mainka / Shutterstock.com.

We urgently appeal to the involved conflict parties to return to the negotiating table and get into constructive dialogue. Lufthansa is hoping that its flight schedule will be largely back to normal on Saturday. If it were just Lufthansa's flights affected, passengers to London would potentially be able to travel with This will be made especially bitter given the disruption faced yesterday. More than 1,300 flight cancellations for Lufthansa Group airlines alone show once again how vulnerable and fragile the air transport system is to strike activity." Now, the airline's operations will be totally paralyzed for the second time in three days.

The Verdi trade union has called on public sector employees at Frankfurt/Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen airports to stage a ...

“We are not a party to the collective bargaining and have no influence on it – nevertheless, our guests and we are massively affected. “We regret the enormous impact of this warning strike which is being carried out at the expense of our passengers,” said Michael Niggemann, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Officer Human Resources & Infrastructure Lufthansa Group. As a result of the strike announcement, the airports in Frankfurt and Munich, among others, are suspending regular passenger operations for Friday.

'We regret enormous impact of this warning strike which is being carried out at expense of our passengers,' says airline - Anadolu Agency.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. "We regret the enormous impact of this warning strike which is being carried out at the expense of our passengers. "As a result, the Lufthansa Group is regrettably forced to suspend its flight operations at its German hubs in Frankfurt and Munich in particular for that day, canceling a total of more than 1,300 flights," it said in a statement about the flights scheduled for Friday.

DEUTSCHE Lufthansa will cancel at least 1200 flights scheduled on Friday (Feb 17) due to strikes at its main hubs of Frankfurt and Munich, ...