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Tourists are having to queue for up to four hours at passport control because airports in some EU countries have bungled the introduction of tougher security checks.
Might depend on who is on duty, or even the day of the week!
What are the new procedures when you’re flying out of the Schengen area?At a typical holiday airport, every passenger goes through the security check as normal. The standard search for weapons, explosives and liquids over 100ml has not changed. But once you get through into the departures area you could notice a scrum of passengers stretching back from the passport desks for travellers heading out of the Schengen area. It’s a simple matter of resources; it appears there aren’t enough people or electronic checkpoints to cope with the demands of the new rules at peak times.
I am probably showing my ignorance (yet again) but UK was never in Schengen so why have the rules changed and how. Or is this all just another example of newspapers inventing something to fill the pages during the silly season?
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Quote from: Aristarches on Friday, 04 August, 2017 @ 11:43:20I am probably showing my ignorance (yet again) but UK was never in Schengen so why have the rules changed and how. Or is this all just another example of newspapers inventing something to fill the pages during the silly season?Ari, if you're accustomed to reading insurance documents this might be a joy for you. Or it might not. Seems the EU have realised that free movement is a lovely idea but bad people use it for bad purposes:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0458&from=ENTalking of free movement... reminds me to try some Voltarol
Britain pushed for extra security checks in European airports which are being blamed for huge queues.Airports in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Holland have been accused of failing to deploy enough staff to carry out the checks.
The intermittent delays follow the introduction in March of EU regulations in the wake of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. The new rules demand both entry and exit checks on passengers from countries – including Britain – outside the 26-nation Schengen border-free zone.Member states are not obliged to check every non-Schengen passport until October, when regulation EU 2017/458 comes into full force, but several airports are already doing so and others are carrying out spot checks on selected flights.
The Independent can reveal the onerous post-Brexit travel rules to be imposed by Europe.Brussels has published the draft legislation for dealing with “visa-exempt third country nationals”, which is what British travellers will become after the UK leaves the EU.The new regulations will increase the cost and complexity of holidays and business trips to the Schengen Area, which includes 22 EU countries plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Red tape for travellers will be more tangled.
Dodge the airport queues in GreeceDelays for passengers across Europe are set to worsen, but one country is avoiding the chaosAirlines are warning that the passport queues in EU airports are likely to get worse before they get better — except, that is, in Greece.
Kindly be informed that the Hellenic Police implement the new EU Regulation 458/2017, according to which passports' and identities' crosscheck controls are carried out against databases, for all European citizens travelling to / from Non-Schengen destinations.These controls are conducted in reinforcement of the measures applied until today, at all border control points of European countries, to all passengers entering or exiting to/from Non-Schengen destinations.Due to possibly increased waiting times required for the completion of these checks, which at peak times can take several minutes, passengers travelling to Non-Schengen destinations are kindly requested to timely proceed to Passport Control, taking into consideration the time to their boarding gate as set by their airline
QuoteKindly be informed that the Hellenic Police implement the new EU Regulation 458/2017, according to which passports' and identities' crosscheck controls are carried out against databases, for all European citizens travelling to / from Non-Schengen destinations.These controls are conducted in reinforcement of the measures applied until today, at all border control points of European countries, to all passengers entering or exiting to/from Non-Schengen destinations.Due to possibly increased waiting times required for the completion of these checks, which at peak times can take several minutes, passengers travelling to Non-Schengen destinations are kindly requested to timely proceed to Passport Control, taking into consideration the time to their boarding gate as set by their airlineThis is from the Kefalonia Airport website.https://www.efl-airport.gr/en