Australia’s immigration SmartGates went down for a lot of hours within the current day after an outage hit the Australian Border Force’s (ABF) kiosk applications.
International airports, along with Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, have been affected by the outage, which pressured information processing of passengers.
Extra ABF officers have been launched in for information processing and to minimise traveller disruption.
According to the ABC, there have been extended queues at Sydney and Melbourne worldwide airports.
It’s understood Melbourne Airport recorded roughly spherical 1000 passengers affected by the outage alongside three departure flights out of the city moreover have been delayed.
As of midday AEDT, the applications have been all once more on-line, the ABF suggested iTnews.
“The Australian Border Force has been working to restore a technical outage impacting both inbound and outbound passengers at international airports nationwide this morning,” a spokesperson talked about.
“As of midday AEDT, the issue has been resolved the least bit airports and all applications are once more on-line.
“The explanation for the technical situation stays beneath investigation. We want to thank travellers for his or her persistence throughout this incident.”
