A nationwide technical difficulty sparked chaos at Sydney Worldwide Airport, with clients queuing for a kilometre as technicians scrambled to repair the problem.
The Australian Border Pressure (ABF) confirmed the outage on Saturday morning.
“We’re conscious of a technical difficulty impacting the good gates at Sydney Airport,” a spokesman stated, apologising for the delays.
“We’re working to repair the problem as shortly as attainable and have deployed extra officers to help with facilitating travellers.”
A nationwide technical difficulty with immigration e-gates prompted main delays at Sydney Worldwide Airport. Image: Provided
In a put up to X late on Saturday morning, Sydney Airport supplied this replace: ‘Points with e-gate machines have been resolved. The queue for customs clearance on the T1 worldwide terminal is now again to regular. Thanks in your persistence.’
However the difficulty sparked main delays for travellers, with crowds accumulating between the immigration gate and the terminal.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter) traveller Rajiv Singal captured the scope of the delays earlier within the morning.
A prolonged queue fashioned from the immigration gate to the terminal because the ABF tried to repair the issue. Image: X
“Flying worldwide out of Sydney? There’s a kilometre lengthy queue for immigration test!” He posted with the accompanying video.
“And guess it will be identical throughout Australia as there appears to be a difficulty with their methods.”
It’s understood Melbourne Airport solely skilled a slight outage however has not been impacted by delays.
The ABF has been contacted for additional remark.
