{"id":28481,"date":"2024-05-07T22:10:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints\/07\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:10:48","slug":"outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints\/07\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Outage Causes Delays at U.K. Airports\u2019 Immigration Checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">International airline passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport near London faced long lines at immigration checkpoints for several hours on Tuesday evening after the British Border Force reported a nationwide computer outage, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBorder Force is currently experiencing a nationwide issue which is impacting passengers being processed through the border,\u201d Heathrow, the country\u2019s largest airport, said on social media at 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just before 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Heathrow <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeathrowAirport\/status\/1788007668981871027\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced that the issue had been resolved<\/a>, but it was unclear if that was the case for other impacted airports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Manchester Airport, Gatwick Airport near London, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/belfastairport\/status\/1787951989990584584?s=46&amp;t=8H3FDbkvfJkXNtBv_SrGPg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast International Airport<\/a> in Northern Ireland and several other airports had reported being affected Tuesday evening, though the overall number of affected airports wasn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials said that the problem originated with the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/coming-to-the-uk\/faster-travel-through-the-uk-border\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Border Force\u2019s \u201ceGates<\/a>,\u201d immigration checkpoints that process arriving passengers through the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials at Gatwick and Manchester Airports said Tuesday that there were no flight delays or cancellations related to the outage, but said that they were working with Border Force officials to assist passengers experiencing delays at immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was unclear when the outage began or what caused it. An inquiry emailed to the U.K.\u2019s Home Office, which administers the Border Force, was not immediately answered Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Images on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuelmorter\/status\/1787925421817823712\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media showed crammed, stagnant lines<\/a> in front of a row of gates beneath signs that read \u201cUK Border\u201d at Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/07\/world\/europe\/uk-airport-outage-heathrow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International airline passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport near London faced long lines at immigration checkpoints for several hours on Tuesday evening after<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints\/07\/05\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}