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Chaos at Passport Control Sees Hundreds Miss Flights at Madrid Airport - Spain in English

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A combination of increased passenger traffic, understaffing and a technical glitch led to major delays at Madrid’s Barajas Airport on Wednesday, resulting in hundreds of international travellers missing their flights due to severe bottlenecks at passport control. Numerous travellers affected by the disruption already had their luggage loaded onto departing aircraft. The disruption – caused by both an apparent shortage of police officers at passp…

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Without the intention of "entering into any kind of controversy", Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has apologized for the chaos in the airport of...

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The Minister of the Interior insists that there was no lack of National Police personnel in the control of passports contrary to those claimed by AENA.

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MADRID, 2 (EUROPA PRESS) The Association of Air Lines (ALA) has expressed its concern at the congestion this Wednesday in the control of passports of Terminal T4 Satellite of the airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas for the lack of police strength, urging the government to solve the problem "as soon as possible". [...] The entry Airlines regret the collapse in the T4 Satellite of Barajas and ask the government to correct it "as soon as before" a…

A computer failure in the access to applications used by the National Police, according to police sources, was the trigger this Wednesday for a new day of chaos at Madrid-Barajas airport. Hundreds of passengers have had to endure long queues in the passport control area of Terminal 4 Satellite. Although it has been a "timely computer problem", according to the same sources, and it is already remedied, this new situation has caused a great discom…

The T4 of the Madrid airport of Barajas is today the scene of chaos that has lasted hours and has caused more than one passenger to miss their flight.

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El Diario Montañes broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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