Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?

Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage? by raverbashing on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:35AM (#36094705)

I'm not sure why this should affect holidaymakers, if I remember correctly passports are checked on the way in, but not when going out of the UK correct?

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Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage? by heyest on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:52AM (#36094836)

Holidaymakers need to return home eventually.

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Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage? by midasuni on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:54AM (#36094858)

Holidaymakers tend to return from holiday as much as they go.

Outbound flights can be delayed too if people can’t disembark from planes because the terminal is over capacity in the arrivals side.

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Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage? by raverbashing on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:44AM (#36095224)

Yes but the bank holiday is the Monday, they would be returning on Monday, maybe Tuesday but not today

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Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage? by midasuni on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:59AM (#36095339)

Many holiday changeover days at Saturday

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