manchester and heathrow and gatwick
and stansted and bristol airport,
belfast, they all now cannot use the
gates and one that you can use with
facial recognition as you get to
passport control rather than
speaking to a border force officer.
what are force officers or having to
check peoples identifications
manually which is leading to the
massive queues that were mentioned.
they do apologise for any
inconvenience caused and they are
working hard to resolve it and like
heathrow, manchester airport is
trying to give people water to try
to help alleviate the waiting and
they say they will waive car parking
fines and any excess car parking
finds that people might incur as a
result find having to wait in the
queue but as far as we know, there
are still outages a border force
e—gates across the airports and
potentially also some rail ports