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Amadeus downtime, major airlines affected

Amadeus, the online-booking system developped by Qantas, has caused disorder when it crashed all around the world, affecting thousands of airline and tourist agency websites. A spokesman for Qantas said they are currently working on identifying and fixing the issue while the staff has to manually approve bookings.


All flights operated by this system will experience delays for checking in or booking.southwest-ticket

“There are delays because it takes longer to check in manually. We are working with Amadeus to rectify the problem and we apologise for any inconvenience caused. The issue is with Amadeus and all airline networks that use this program will be affected in some way,” the spokesman said.

According to the company, 458 airlines across the world use this system for booking and are consequently affected by the downtime. Major airlines, such as Lufthansa, British Airways or Air France are also suffering from this failure.

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