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Lufthansa Resumes Flights After IT Issues Crippled Operations

  • Problem should be fully fixed by early evening, company says
  • Europe’s biggest carrier operates around 700 aircraft
Passengers wait at a Lufthansa information desk following the grounding of flights, at Munich Airport on Feb. 15.

Passengers wait at a Lufthansa information desk following the grounding of flights, at Munich Airport on Feb. 15.

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Deutsche Lufthansa AG is returning to normal flight operations after widespread software problems linked to damaged Deutsche Telekom AG broadband cables grounded hundreds of planes.

The situation at Lufthansa’s main base in Frankfurt is normalizing, a spokesman said Wednesday. Lufthansa expects the IT issues that affected systems including check-in operations to be fully resolved by early evening.