22 May 2017 Electronic interface between airlines and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection crashes
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Viktor Ovcharenko
International flights out of Australia were thrown into chaos by the outage of what was described as the “electronic interface between airlines and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection”.
The issue meant passports could not be processed electronically — slowing down the check-in process.
Flights out of Sydney were hardest hit, with delays of up to an hour between 8 and 11am.
Check-in desks in Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland in New Zealand were also affected.
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