Flights delayed as booking system fails

The meltdown appears to have had less of an impact in the North America

Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights on Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company called a “network issue”.

Carriers including British Airways, Deutsche Lufthansa, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas Airways were among those impacted, with Dutch operator KLM delaying at least 24 departures. Singapore’s Changi airport said via Twitter that a technical problem affecting some operators was holding up the check-in process, with boarding passes having to be issued manually.

“Amadeus confirms that, during the morning, we experienced a network issue that caused disruption to some of our systems,” the Madrid-based company