Technology chaos at airports: Hours of waiting for hours when entering!

Technology chaos at airports: Hours of waiting for hours when entering!

Düsseldorf, Deutschland - A massive technology failure to the federal police caused considerable problems when entering from non-Schengen states at several large German airports on Friday. The systems for automatic entry did not work, which forced the police to manually carry out the controls. This led to hours of waiting times and a real backlog at airports such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hanover and Hamburg, as krone.at reported. However, passengers from the Schengen area were not affected, and flight operations were still without any noteworthy impairments.

The federal police themselves could initially not comment on the causes of the failure. The problems are due to the failure of the important police information system inpol, a data network that is responsible for the exchange of information between the federal and state governments. The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, criticized the IT deficiencies sharply and described them as a "homemade problem", since necessary modernizations have been financially ignored for three years. "It was only a matter of time before something like this happened," Teggatz told the Bild newspaper. The lack of money for a timely IT infrastructure is estimated at around 150 million euros, which the Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) had systematically overlooked, such as sueddeutsche.de reported.

The persistent problems could have serious consequences for the entire European Schengen system, warned Teggatz. The delays not only fueled frustration among travelers, but also questioned the integrity of the security checks. The airports in Leipzig and Dresden are currently not affected by the technical disorders, so there may be a ray of hope in the middle of the chaos -like location.