Computer outage causes delays at several US airports
Travellers have been delayed at several major US airports due to a technical issue affecting customs checks.
US authorities said computers are coming slowly back online after a nationwide outage caused delays for international passengers.
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it was “experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports [sic] of entry” and was trying to fix the problem.
It said passengers were being processed “using alternative procedures.”
Los Angeles airport tweeted that its systems were slowly returning to normal, and the outage had “no significant impacts to flights”.
As well as in Los Angeles, issues with customs checks were reported by travellers in Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, New York’s John F Kennedy Airport, and Dulles Airport in the US capital.
Seattle-Tacoma Airport has also since tweeted that its systems are “back online”.
