{"id":541271,"date":"2026-04-20T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:54:09","slug":"ryanair-flight-from-milan-to-manchester-leaves-passengers-behind-due-to-border-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541271\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair flight from Milan to Manchester leaves passengers behind due to border delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has seen video of the crowd that formed in Milan Bergamo, showing frustrated passengers telling staff they&#8217;d been waiting at the gate for more than an hour, asking &#8220;What do we do?&#8221; and saying that information was &#8220;too slow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EES requires non-EU citizens, including Britons, to register biometric information, including face scans and fingerprints, which can then be checked each time they cross a European Schengen Area border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been phased in since October and was meant to become fully operational on 10 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, its introduction has been more successful in some parts of Europe than others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryanair said: &#8220;Due to passport control delays at Milan Bergamo Airport on 16 April, a number of passengers missed this flight from Milan to Manchester.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to one passenger, about 30 people were left stranded. Ryanair did not say how many travellers were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milan Bergamo Airport has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EES is run by the relevant border control authority in each country rather than by the airport or airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has seen video of the crowd that formed in Milan Bergamo, showing frustrated passengers telling staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-541271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}