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Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom AG broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
Some flight operations have resumed, though all flights in Frankfurt, its main base, remain grounded, a spokesman said. Lufthansa expects the problem to be resolved by early evening.
Lufthansa’s global flight operations centre is located on the outskirts of Frankfurt’s airport, so damage to the communications links there ripple through Lufthansa ground IT systems across the world.
The issues on Wednesday affected the company’s check-in operations and other systems.
The disruption, caused by damage to broadband cables at a rail location in northern Frankfurt, forced Europe’s biggest airline by fleet size to ground hundreds of flights worldwide.