BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - Berlin airport has halted

all flights until 10 am (0800 GMT) due to a technical fault, a

spokesperson told Reuters on Friday.

The spokesperson did not give details about the nature of

the problem, which comes as carriers, media companies, banks and

telecoms firms around the world report system outages disrupting

their operations.

American Airlines ( AAL ), Delta Airlines,

United Airlines and Allegiant Air grounded

flights less than an hour after Microsoft ( MSFT ) said it

resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several

low-cost carriers.

A spokesperson for Zurich airport said it was not

experiencing problems, but that flights to Berlin were cancelled

because BER was not accepting incoming flights until 1000 GMT.

Franfurt airport said flights to and from Berlin had

been halted until 0945 GMT but that all other operations were

running as normal.

Lufthansa said in a statement that its profile and

booking retrieval functionality may be limited and that it was

working on a solution.