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People queue astatine passport power successful Milan Bergamo connected 16 April
ByTheo Leggett
Business correspondent
The caput of Europe's airports lobby radical says concerns implicit the region's caller integer borderline power strategy are keeping him and different manufacture bosses awake astatine night.
Earlier this year, the EU completed the rotation retired of its Entry-Exit System (EES). It requires travellers from extracurricular the EU to registry biometric accusation erstwhile entering astir European countries, which is past checked erstwhile they leave.
Although EES has been moving good successful immoderate countries, it has besides been blamed for causing important delays astatine a fig of airports, with immoderate passengers missing flights.
Stefan Schulte, president of ACI Europe, said politicians should "stop pretending... that EES is moving conscionable fine. It is not."
Schulte, who is besides caput of the institution that owns Frankfurt Airport, told an manufacture lawsuit successful Prague: "Passengers are queueing for hours astatine highest postulation times and I conscionable bash not cognize however we volition beryllium capable to header successful the coming weeks with the expected summation successful traffic."
The BBC has contacted the European Commission, which oversees the EES, for comment.
Earlier this month, dozens of Ryanair passengers were near stranded successful Athens aft their formation to London Luton near without them.
Ryanair blamed borderline delays, portion the airdrome said it had been experiencing congestion linked to "additional processing requirements", though neither straight said EES was responsible.
However, it marked the latest incidental of passengers being near down since EES was brought in. In April, immoderate passengers owed to alert from Milan Bergamo and Milan Linate to Manchester besides missed their flights owed to problems astatine passport control.
The strategy obliges astir travellers from extracurricular the European Economic Area to registry biometric data, including facial scans and fingerprints, which tin past beryllium checked each clip they transverse the borders of the Schengen escaped question zone.
Wizz Air has antecedently urged British holidaymakers to get astatine European airports 3 hours earlier their formation location departs due to lengthy queues caused by the caller borderline checks.
"We urgently request afloat flexibility for borderline power authorities to suspend the EES whenever needed to debar further chaos – on with a rethink of those processes," Schulte said.
"This is astir showing respect and decency for those who chose to question to the EU, and safeguarding our estimation arsenic a welcoming and businesslike destination."
Earlier this twelvemonth Greece's tourism curate said she did not privation visitors to beryllium "burdened" by bureaucratic procedures erstwhile entering oregon leaving the country.
Olga Kefalogianni promised British passengers would not look biometric checks erstwhile travelling to Greece this summer.
But the concern remains unclear aft the Greek Foreign Ministry later disputed that immoderate exemption existed, external.
There were besides reports that Portugal and Italy were considering exempting British nationals from EES checks astatine their airports but the European Commission claimed determination were no specified plans successful place.
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