SYDNEY: A technical outage crippled all of Australia’s main airports on Friday (Nov 8) morning, resulting in lengthy queues at worldwide terminals after the disruption of automated kiosks for identification and facial recognition, authorities stated.
In an announcement the Australian Border Power (ABF) stated immigration employees had been added to manually course of travellers, including, “the problem is at the moment being rectified and techniques are slowly returning on-line”.
No flights have been affected at Australia’s busiest airport in Sydney, a spokesperson stated by e mail, however added, “inbound and outbound queues are longer than traditional”.
In an replace, the ABF stated it “has been working to revive a technical outage impacting each inbound and outbound passengers at worldwide airports nationwide this morning”.
The difficulty was resolved by noon, stated the ABF, including that the reason for the technical subject stays beneath investigation.
