Australia: Sydney Airport chaos after 'technical issue' leaves passengers stranded

Thousands of passengers at Sydney Airport's international and domestic terminals are facing major delays Friday morning after a "technical issue" left passengers stranded. While limited screening reopened just before 7am, the major delays are expected to have a knock-on effect at airports across Australia. A spokesperson for Sydney Airport said the issue had affected systems including CCTV, and interrupted passenger processing at the T1 International and T2 Domestic terminals. The T3 Qantas domestic terminal was not affected, a Qantas spokeswoman said. Security was reopened at both the international and domestic terminals about 6:45am. By 7:30am, about a third of the thousands of passengers in the domestic terminal were through screening. <br/>