{"id":45429,"date":"2024-05-07T22:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T22:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:33:53","slug":"outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/outage-causes-delays-at-u-k-airports-immigration-checkpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Outage Causes Delays at U.K. Airports\u2019 Immigration Checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/07\/multimedia\/07xp-heathrow-tmpl\/07xp-heathrow-tmpl-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Outage Causes Delays at U.K. Airports\u2019 Immigration Checkpoints\" title=\"Outage Causes Delays at U.K. Airports\u2019 Immigration Checkpoints\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">International airline passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport near London and at other airports in Britain were facing long lines at immigration checkpoints on Tuesday evening after the nation\u2019s 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\">The problem was also affecting Manchester Airport, Gatwick Airport near London and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/belfastairport\/status\/1787951989990584584?s=46&amp;t=8H3FDbkvfJkXNtBv_SrGPg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast International Airport<\/a> in Northern Ireland. The overall number of affected airports wasn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\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 noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Border Force\u2019s \u201ceGates<\/a>,\u201d immigration checkpoints that process arriving passengers through the border.<\/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 at Gatwick and Manchester Airports said 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 specifically caused it. An inquiry emailed to the U.K.\u2019s Home Office, which administers the Border Force, was not immediately returned Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Images on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuelmorter\/status\/1787925421817823712\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" 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><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/07\/world\/europe\/uk-airport-outage-heathrow.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International airline passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport near London and at other airports in Britain were facing long lines at immigration checkpoints on Tuesday evening after the nation\u2019s Border Force reported a nationwide computer outage, officials said. \u201cBorder Force is currently experiencing a nationwide issue which is impacting passengers being processed through the border,\u201d Heathrow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/07\/multimedia\/07xp-heathrow-tmpl\/07xp-heathrow-tmpl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8321,46400,94,378,1732,503],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45431,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429\/revisions\/45431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}