Wizz Air’s Moynihan said the impact of the new checks was “fragmented across Europe”. <\/p>\n
While there has been some “seamless travel”, she said there had been long queues at “usual hotspots such as Spain, Portugal, France”.<\/p>\n
When Moynihan travelled to Mallorca for half term, she encountered no queues, with extra staff on hand and “a significant amount of [EES] kiosks”.<\/p>\n
However, she said in general her airline was advising passengers to prepare for long waits.<\/p>\n
“When you land in the destination airport, there might be queues, so you should bring a portable charger or water,” she said.<\/p>\n
Because EES information has to be verified when people leave, she also highlighted the risk of queues before flights back to the UK.<\/p>\n
“Because there is another passport check…that’s where we see that people have, again, experienced longer waiting times than anticipated,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said usual advice is to get to the airport two hours ahead of your flight – “but in these circumstances, we are advising three hours”.<\/p>\n
Moynihan advised anyone taking a connecting flight to allow “a number of hours” between flights in case of border queues.<\/p>\n
She said border officials were proactively suspending EES checks if long waits built up.<\/p>\n
The European Commission says EES isn’t the only thing that can cause delays, and registering information usually only takes around a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wizz Air’s Moynihan said the impact of the new checks was “fragmented across Europe”. While there has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611545","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=611545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}