2014News

Blips in Immigration system

According to Listin Diario, the electronic passenger checking system for immigration at the International Las Americas Airport stopped working so that all passengers had to be checked manually. This caused long delays entering and leaving the area from Sunday, 13 July 2014 afternoon through Monday, 14 July.

However, in a press release the Migration Department said that the system had not broken down. He explained they were incorporating an advanced database system, which would contain passenger lists for each arrival and departure. This required the system to have to be rebooted twice, each time meaning it was non operational for twenty minutes.When the system was down, all migration checks had to be carried out manually.

Read more in Spanish:

http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2014/07/15/i701181_migracin-niega-fallas-sistema-informtico-aeropuerto-las-amricas.html

http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/7/14/329729/Falla-el-sistema-de-chequeo-de-pasajeros-en-Migracion-del-aeropuerto-Las