Posted on 02/15/2023 5:50:51 AM PST by dynachrome
A group-wide IT system failure at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday, which the German airline blamed on underground engineering works at a railway station in Frankfurt cutting several fibre optic cables.
Repairs would take until Wednesday afternoon according to Lufthansa, citing information it had received from Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) . It expects flight operations to stabilise by early evening.
Photos and videos from several German airports showed thousands of passengers waiting to be checked in.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Probably just a big oopsie. I believe a bunch of fiber optic cables use a certain Baltimore train tunnel that much of East Coast comms are dependent on. Not good there either.
Lufthansa can’t be bothered to multihome an important fiber bottleneck that runs through a train station?
Fiber isn’t that expensive.
Getting government permission was always the time consuming, expensive part over here.
Usually solved by getting a champion inside the recalcitrant agency.
It’s called political donations.
(I’m available for a small consulting fee)
Bulldozer attack........................
Colonel Hogan?
Are they sharing information processing with Southwest Airlines?
I know nothing! Nothing!.............................
maybe Russian sabotage
Fiber optic cables getting cut is not that uncommon especially around construction sites, etc.
What I would be concerned about is what you mentioned, having a single source of failure for a major worldwide network.
The airlines like many areas of the economy are totally dependent on their computer systems and networks, to not have more redundancy built in than Lufthansa is poor IMO.
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