A spokeswoman for Vancouver International Airport says the Canada Border Services Agency‘s primary inspection kiosks are back up and running after a nationwide outage caused hours-long delays for travellers.
Jenny Duncan says YVR was notified of the outage around 7 a.m. Pacific Time and international flight arrivals began to get busier around 11 a.m.
Duncan says she doesn’t have statistics handy, but an hours-long outage of the CBSA systems is “very rare.”
![For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.](https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/images/skyline/national.jpg)
Get breaking National news
Airport staff tweeted at around 1:30 p.m. that they were working to help arriving guests fill out customs forms manually, as well as keep people hydrated.
WATCH: Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cancun delayed by over 13 hours (May, 2019)
![Click to play video: 'Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cancun delayed by over 13 hours'](https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/781/1003/SA_SUNWING_DELAY_MAY_18_848x480_1524458051655.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all)
A number of other airports across Canada took to Twitter to warn travellers about similar issues. They include Ottawa, Calgary, and Toronto Pearson.
A representative from the Canada Border Services Agency was not immediately available to respond to a request for more information.
Comments