According to the publication, the cause of the failure is currently unknown.
“Our colleagues have to manually perform many tasks that the system used to handle. We are still trying to resolve this,” said a representative of the police at Frankfurt Airport.
In contrast, there are no long queues at Munich Airport. The situation is similar at the Berlin airport.
“In some areas, the [screening] time is slightly increasing. However, there is no cessation of entry,” said a representative of the airport.
Hamburg Airport also reports no queues or flight cancellations.
The head of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Tegatz, believes that what happened is an inevitable consequence of underfunding the IT infrastructure, which has not been modernized for three years. This involves a shortfall of approximately 150 million euros.