EasyJet passengers describe new EU border controls 'nightmare'

Turning up 3 to 5 hours early, in a queue that entire time, and still missed the flight due to a poor system integration. This is what happens when the lowest bidder wins the tender.

Has anyone seen a list of which airports are actually having issues with EES, it seems very hit or miss and I wouldn't be surprised if it is the same places over and over again. I've cleared in Vienna, Munich and Warsaw and never had more then a 15 min Queue Time.

> According to ACI Europe, which represents airports, and A4E, which speaks for European airlines, initial reports have shown passenger waiting times of two-to-three hours at border control during peak times. Two to three hours for passport controls *is* insane. That's not something you are prepared for as a traveller.

*All the benefits and none of the downsides!* /s

So what’s the issue ? They are taking biometric identification at all eu borders now ?

I know it wasn't fully implemented yet but I flew through Bologna and Munich in March and it wasn't terrible. Doesn't feel great giving your fingerprints to a foreign country with your picture but anonymity and privacy seem to be things of the past

Happy Brexit

Non-EU nationals get the same treatment, it is not a punishment. The solution is simple and they surely know it.

I was at Lisbon Airport this morning and it was absolutely shambolic. I arrived a little over two hours early for my flight and proceeded straight through securirty (no bags to check). Security was fast, but it became immediately clear that the line to use the e-gates to exit Schengen was atrocious. Things were moving glacially, people were growing frustrated, and some folks started trying to cut by going into the handicap/priority lane, which enraged a few older, outspoken Americans. One guy threatened to start throwing elbows and a bunch of people were shouting from time to time. Eventually, the line got so long that the airport employees began waiving everyone through the non-functioning e-gates, saying, "Go, go!". We were funneled through them two two booths that had quickly been set up, where border agents were stamping passports at random, seemingly without much in the way of checks. Everyone started streaming through in a rush to make their flights. Our flight still had 10 people missing and it ended up being delayed by \~20 minutes because they then had to spent time taking off the bags of the people who didn't manage to board. Ridiculous and completely avoidable situation.

Brits are being treated like any other non EU citizen and suddenly they don't like it... I guess passport controls are just for dark skinned people

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Oh look the consequences of our actions. That's what we get for choosing to be a third country.

Brexit means Brexit

> The new system obliges third-country nationals - including Britons - who enter the Schengen free travel zone to register biometric information, including facial scans and fingerprints. Damn what a nightmare that is.

The idiots voted for it and if even one of them suffered from this along with the normal humans then, good. Clowns

This combined with the TSA failures in America and the ongoing war in the middle east have made air travel deeply unappealing lately.

Just went via Milan, no issues entering EU ( Canadian)

I’m from the U.S. and I traveled from Heathrow to and from Milan Linate in January. The airport has a specific area for non-Schengen area flights and the gates are all next to one another. I don’t know how someone can say they didn’t know which gate they had to go to because there’s only that one big room with four gates and it’s the only set of gates that you have to pass through immigration to get to. I understand the wait times may have been long, but they should have known to get in the immigration line.

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Cry me a river. It’s been pretty much the same experience for Europeans coming to the U.S. for years.

So just have the UK rejoin the EU. All is would cost is the Elgin Marbles, Gibralter, and giving up the pound for the Euro. Put a suitable lead time of 20 years or whatever so all the politicians responsible will be gone by then.

This seems strange, I've traveled all over Europe and over the last 10 years the longest I've ever waited was 45 minutes. And that was holiday season passing through Heathrow, London. Which ranks among the top when looking at amount of international travelers going through. Looking like either there's a lot of selection bias in the comments or something else is going ong.

Not quite sure how delays are supposed to cause vomiting

Ok, so what?