Major airlines cancel dozens of flights to Tel Aviv
MAJOR airlines have cancelled dozens of flights to Tel Aviv over the weekend after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale attack against Israel. American Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates and Ryanair are among those pulling flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. However airport authorities did not stop commercial air links with Israel’s…
Adil Aziz
Lufthansa IT fault strands thousands of passengers worldwide
THOUSANDS of passengers worldwide were stranded after an IT fault at Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa caused flight delays and disruption at airlines across the group. “There is a group-wide IT system failure,” a spokesperson told Reuters. The company said the problem was caused by damage to several of Deutsche Telekom’s glass-fibre cables during construction work…