Australian airports hit by outage at immigration counters | Global News Avenue

A technical glitch at all major Australian airports on Friday disrupted automated identity and facial recognition kiosks, causing long queues at international terminals, authorities said.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) said in a statement that it had added immigration staff to manually process travelers, adding that “the issue is currently being rectified and the system is slowly returning online.”

However, no flights have been affected at Australia’s busiest Sydney airport, a spokesman said in an email, but added that “queues arriving and departing are longer than usual.”

It’s unclear when operations will return to normal.