<ul><li>Lufthansa experienced an IT outage causing massive flight delays and disruption across the group worldwide, affecting airlines such as SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings.</li><li>The cause of the failure is still unclear, and the company has been forced to check in passengers using pen and paper and cannot digitally process luggage.</li><li>Shares in Lufthansa were down 1.2% at 0936 GMT following the IT system failure.</li><li>The incident occurred just two days before planned strikes at seven German airports that are expected to lead to significant disruptions.</li></ul>

Worldwide flight delays & cancellations caused by Lufthansa's IT outage, says Airline

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