Heads up re: Spain (MAD, BCN etc.) - Long passport / security queues Jun 2017 onward
Aug 4, 2017, 12:25 pm
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BCN strike: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-major-delays
and re general European delays. According to the BBC the delays are by no means everywhere. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ngen-passports
and re general European delays. According to the BBC the delays are by no means everywhere. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ngen-passports
Aug 4, 2017, 12:52 pm
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Aug 5, 2017, 2:29 am
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Not really pertinent but arriving into BCN this AM was very easy and no wait despite AA being delayed out of JFK. Let's see on Monday....
Aug 5, 2017, 5:04 am
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"Britain pushed for extra security checks in European airports which are being blamed for huge queues.
Tourists are having to queue for up to four hours at passport control in some European airports after the introduction of tougher security checks earlier this year.
The detailed checks, which were introduced in May, apply to British citizens because the UK is not a member of the open-borders Schengen zone. Airports in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Holland have been accused of failing to deploy enough staff to carry out the checks."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...eues-european/
Tourists are having to queue for up to four hours at passport control in some European airports after the introduction of tougher security checks earlier this year.
The detailed checks, which were introduced in May, apply to British citizens because the UK is not a member of the open-borders Schengen zone. Airports in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Holland have been accused of failing to deploy enough staff to carry out the checks."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...eues-european/
Aug 5, 2017, 1:26 pm
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This new regulation does *not* only target British citizens. It extends the criminal and terrorism database checks that were previously conducted only on third-party nationals (that is: non-EU) to all travelers.
The reason that British travelers are particularly hard hit is because a large proportion of non-Schengen flights from Schengen airports are to Britain. But this is not an issue that uniquely affects British (or even non-Schengen) citizens, as everyone has discovered.
Last edited by jamespvg; Aug 5, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Aug 6, 2017, 11:25 am
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I'm staying at Hotel Arts in Barcelona and got back to my room today to a note slipped under my door alerting me to the strike and to leave 4 hours before my flight. Should be fun tomorrow morning!
Aug 6, 2017, 11:31 am
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Who said the new regulation targets only British citizens?
Aug 6, 2017, 12:58 pm
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"The detailed checks, which were introduced in May, apply to British citizens because the UK is not a member of the open-borders Schengen zone."
...which is strictly true, but I think confusing to many, since the checks apply to all EU citizens leaving to anywhere outside of Schengen. The confusion is evident on this thread too — e.g., people seem to think that non-Schengen EU citizens now go through non-EU lines, which is absolutely not the case.