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Brits Warned of 6-Hour Queues at 7 Major Airports This Summer - Are You Affected?
Ryanair says the system is not ready for peak summer travel and warns of queues of up to 6 hours at seven holiday airports.
- Ryanair is urging European governments to suspend the Entry-Exit System rollout until September, citing insufficient staff and system readiness as schools break up for the peak summer travel period.
- Rolled out fully in April, the European Entry-Exit System requires non-EU nationals to provide biometric data, including fingerprints and photographs, to enter the 29 countries in the Schengen Area.
- Ryanair identified seven holiday hotspots experiencing "major disruptions," with some passengers facing queues of up to six hours due to insufficient staff, kiosks, and system readiness.
- Port of Dover Chief Executive Doug Bannister warned of severe congestion after investing £40 million in a facility that remains unused due to the "inoperability of the EES kiosk technology."
- Ryanair Chief Operations Officer Neal McMahon warned families "face passport queue chaos," adding the airline received "zero response" from governments to address these major challenges.
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The automated system launched in autumn to register non-European travellers arriving in the EU would lead to queues of up to five hours, denouncing airports and airlines.
·Paris, France
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(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = The European Union (EU)’s new digital immigration system (EES) has entered full implementation, but is causing confusion at airports across Europe...
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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The EU launched a new system in autumn to register non-European travellers arriving in its territory, but according to the companies, it causes queues at the borders "which can now reach up to 5 hours in rush hours".
·Paris, France
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