![]() Lufthansa is part of the larger Lufthansa Group, which includes Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Swiss and Eurowings.Īustrian Airlines, based in Vienna, said the impact to its flights at midday Wednesday was “still minor,” although it had suspended all flights to Frankfurt temporarily. Passengers on Lufthansa who had already checked their luggage and wanted to rebook their travel were stranded without their bags, adding to the delays and difficulties. “Due to the significant damage and situation on the site, the repair will be extremely difficult.”Īn excavator working in Düsseldorf damaged 17 fiber-optic lines in a single accident on Friday, severing services for several hours for thousands of customers, including the state police for North Rhine-Westphalia and Germany’s federal statistics offices. “Our technicians are already on site,” Telekom said in a message posted to Twitter late Tuesday, along with photos showing heavy construction equipment and a tangle of cables. ![]() ![]() More than half the canceled flights were destined for Frankfurt Airport, leaving passengers who had been booked on those flights stranded.ĭeutsche Telekom, Germany’s main telecom provider, confirmed that a fiberglass cable buried five meters, or more than 16 feet underground, had been severed by a concrete drill during construction work, taking thousands of customers in the greater Frankfurt area offline. Planes that were unable to take off wound up blocking space at the airport’s gates, forcing pilots to divert incoming flights to nearby airports.įlight Aware, a site that tracks the movement of airplanes, showed that 143 Lufthansa flights, or about one in five, had been canceled and 247 delayed. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |