Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails
- Leading flight-reservations provider suffers ‘network issue’
- British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Qantas suffer disruption
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Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company called a “network issue.”
Carriers including British Airways, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and Qantas Airways Ltd. were among those impacted, with Dutch operator KLM delaying at least 24 departures. Singapore’s Changi airport said via Twitter that a technical problem affecting some operators was holding up the check-in process, with boarding passes having to be issued manually.