Already since last Wednesday to have a Software Problem hindering the work of the air traffic controllers in Long. Now 68 flights from fall at the Frankfurt airport on Monday, including 46 of the Lufthansa. Only on Wednesday an alternative Software to solve the Problem. the
Yeah, where you fly? Not so bad, the impact of the Software problem in the case of the German air traffic control in Langen are not. Nevertheless, it had to be, and must remain, therefore, airplanes on the ground: data on the respective flights – such as, for example, your exact route – not to be transmitted to the controller, so you need to keep track of the movement of the machines time-consuming. The safety of air traffic is not endangered, emphasizing the DFS.
fall out of date today, at the Frankfurt airport, even 68 flights instead of on Sunday announced a 35 (planned 1400 aircraft movements), alone 4500 passengers of Lufthansa are concerned, the Airline needs to repaint 46 flights. Also, who’s flying in the next few days from Frankfurt or Stuttgart, and Cologne-Bonn, you should consider whether the trip was cancelled. Also at Hamburg Airport, three flights from and to Frankfurt could not be held.
since Wednesday evening, has reduced the government-owned company DFS, the amount of Traffic for the airspace up to a quarter of that is controlled from the centre in Langen near Frankfurt. This stretches from lake Constance in the South to Kassel in the North and from the French border to Thuringia. Of the larger airports of Düsseldorf, is concerned with a part of the approach.
Software replacement after a week
try in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, according to DFS technician to take an alternative Software. The Software provides the pilot with all the important data of each flight. These are, for example, aircraft type, flight route and the expected crossing time.
The rest of the security systems are fully available, and also the other centers of air traffic control in Munich, Bremen and Karlsruhe, the monitor spaces, more air, are not affected – though in February, the Software was updated, what is considered to be a possible cause.
compensation? Tend not to
Affected passengers are not able to hope to compensation. Such an event should be considered an exceptional circumstance is explained by rice echtler, Paul Degott: This is the Airline exempt from the payment obligation. The airline could not influence the fact, if the air traffic must be restricted due to problems with the air traffic controllers.
However, according to the experts on whether the Airline has done everything in their Power, to the consequences of flight cancellations. In any case, the Airline has to organise a free alternative transport for the passengers – for example, by rebooking on another flight, or the conversion of the ticket into a train ticket.