Is it a coincidence that the French ones failed on the same day or is there a wider issue?
What a disaster, the border control officers are going to have to speak to people.
Recent online reports say they are now working again at Heathrow (don’t know about other airports).
Could just be a tech issue but also could be an attack to aid in getting a person or people through customs that maybe should not be allowed through. I know its a bit tin foiley.
Incompetence, mis-management, under funding; pick any one, or combination of them
Horne office spokesman – ‘it’s a security issue.’ French system affected too. Possibly a hack.
Took over an hour to get through the queue at Stansted last night at 2am. That was fun!
Why does stuff in the UK just not work. IT issues at airports seem far too common
You got two weeks to fix it or you’ll have my pommie wife to answer to.
I was the last person through the e-gate at St Pancras last night before it broke… sorry.
Right, so this may sound like a bit of a joke, but I’ve been assured that rather than being some kind of fancy AI facial recognition system, the camera in this e-gates are just a video feed into a back room where a human being hits either a red or green button to let you through…
There is never a good reason to have “exit control”. It’s just meaningless bureaucratic nonsense. Not only does it only apply to major airports, it’s redundant since we already know who is flying on a plane. It’s just an additional step that adds delays and inconvenience to passengers and bloats the “security” apparatus.
My parents missed their flight to Poland from Manchester the other day because there was”no electric in the terminal”
“too sensitive” to expand on the issue? What is going on???
The e-gates are *always* down for me – they never work and I end up having to wait twice to get through immigration – what a bunch for shite.
Came through Manchester around midday. E-gates we’re down but the border control queue was shorter and faster than I’ve experienced in the last few years. Everyone was manually checked in and in around 5 minutes. Maybe this is better?
Will this go down as an e-cockup by the Border Force?
As someone who’s passport stopped working on these years ago, and who travelled regularly for work, I’ve little sympathy.
I mean for the folks travelling today it obviously sucks balls. But for the most of them, they’ll only do this today, not tomorrow, next week and next month…
Travel is all well and good.
What happens when the government rolls out their “online safety database”
What happens when that database fails/gets hacked? how am I supposed to survive if I cannot access porn for a day?
How do e-gates work? I went to the airport just to have a look around and see the planes and Terminal 5 looked like the year 3000.
A couple of months ago used the e-gate, it was my first time using one, but I think I followed the on-screen instructions correctly. Had to scan my passport 4 times before it would accept it.
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Is it a coincidence that the French ones failed on the same day or is there a wider issue?
What a disaster, the border control officers are going to have to speak to people.
Recent online reports say they are now working again at Heathrow (don’t know about other airports).
Could just be a tech issue but also could be an attack to aid in getting a person or people through customs that maybe should not be allowed through. I know its a bit tin foiley.
Incompetence, mis-management, under funding; pick any one, or combination of them
Horne office spokesman – ‘it’s a security issue.’ French system affected too. Possibly a hack.
Took over an hour to get through the queue at Stansted last night at 2am. That was fun!
Why does stuff in the UK just not work. IT issues at airports seem far too common
You got two weeks to fix it or you’ll have my pommie wife to answer to.
I was the last person through the e-gate at St Pancras last night before it broke… sorry.
Right, so this may sound like a bit of a joke, but I’ve been assured that rather than being some kind of fancy AI facial recognition system, the camera in this e-gates are just a video feed into a back room where a human being hits either a red or green button to let you through…
There is never a good reason to have “exit control”. It’s just meaningless bureaucratic nonsense. Not only does it only apply to major airports, it’s redundant since we already know who is flying on a plane. It’s just an additional step that adds delays and inconvenience to passengers and bloats the “security” apparatus.
My parents missed their flight to Poland from Manchester the other day because there was”no electric in the terminal”
“too sensitive” to expand on the issue? What is going on???
The e-gates are *always* down for me – they never work and I end up having to wait twice to get through immigration – what a bunch for shite.
Came through Manchester around midday. E-gates we’re down but the border control queue was shorter and faster than I’ve experienced in the last few years. Everyone was manually checked in and in around 5 minutes. Maybe this is better?
Will this go down as an e-cockup by the Border Force?
As someone who’s passport stopped working on these years ago, and who travelled regularly for work, I’ve little sympathy.
I mean for the folks travelling today it obviously sucks balls. But for the most of them, they’ll only do this today, not tomorrow, next week and next month…
Travel is all well and good.
What happens when the government rolls out their “online safety database”
What happens when that database fails/gets hacked? how am I supposed to survive if I cannot access porn for a day?
How do e-gates work? I went to the airport just to have a look around and see the planes and Terminal 5 looked like the year 3000.
A couple of months ago used the e-gate, it was my first time using one, but I think I followed the on-screen instructions correctly. Had to scan my passport 4 times before it would accept it.