Lufthansa IT failure strands thousands of passengers worldwide

FRANKFURT: A group-wide IT system failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday, which the German airline blamed on cutting several fiber optic cables at underground engineering works at a railway station in Frankfurt.
Repairs will take until Wednesday afternoon, according to Lufthansa, citing information received from Deutsche Telekom. Flight operations are expected to stabilize by evening.
Pictures and videos from several airports in Germany showed thousands of passengers waiting to check-in.