Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority said technical issues led to the disruption.
Although travelers were told to delay non-essential travel, there haven’t been any flight cancellations, according to data from Flightradar24.com.
Singapore prides itself on efficiency and being a trusted business hub. Rated the world’s top airport for the 12th time by Skytrax earlier this month, Changi handled 68.3 million passengers in 2019, before the Covid pandemic decimated the global travel industry. Earlier, off-duty immigration officers were called in to manually process departing passengers at Changi with all the automated lanes affected, the border authority said. A representative for Singapore Airlines Ltd. said flights are currently operating as scheduled.
The system slowness added to wait times at land checkpoints which can see as many as 400,000 commuters each day to get to work as well as deliver produce across the Singapore-Malaysia causeway. Traffic tends to be heavier on Fridays as workers return home for the weekend.
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