Britain’s Home Office said border control systems are operational after an outage that it deemed was not a cyber attack led to lengthy queues and chaotic scenes at airports nationwide. — Reuters pic/Sam MorterLONDON, May 8 — Britain’s Home Office said border control systems are operational after an outage that it deemed was not a cyber attack led to lengthy queues and chaotic scenes at airports nationwide.
Britain’s biggest airport, Heathrow, said all of its border control systems were running as usual and that it expected no issues when operations re-start in the morning. London Stansted Airport also confirmed the outage had been resolved. “All the e-gates were totally blank and there was just a lot of chaotic scenes,” said Sam Morter, 32, who was returning to Heathrow from a holiday in Sri Lanka. He made it through the airport after around 90 minutes.“We are working closely with Border Force and affected airports to resolve the issue as soon as possible and apologise to all passengers for the inconvenience caused,” a Home Office spokesperson told Reuters earlier.