BA and Spain
Apr 21, 2022, 2:27 am
#571
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: uk
Programs: Accor Silver, HHonours Silver, Carlson Gold, BA Blue
Posts: 290
Flew to AGP on the 18th. Horrendous process, approx 50 mins from gate to baggage reclaim. Mega passport queue right back to the gate, and then at least 10 mins to get through health control (being held in a snaking queue in the area between passport control and the escalators down to the health control desks / baggage reclaim). Every person was being checked at health control.
Feb 10, 2023, 8:10 am
#574
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Executive Club
Posts: 75
They don't, at least officially. However there is no harm, if the EU queue is short-to-non-existent and the non-EU queue is not, in going up and asking. All the desks have the same equipment to check passports and all the border officers know what to do. Worst case you will be told to get lost. We have tried this a couple of times at Barcelona and always been let through.
Feb 10, 2023, 10:03 am
#576
Join Date: May 2012
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 291
Husband: British passport + TIE
We can use the EU queue when we travel together. When he's travelling on his own, he needs to use the non EU queue.
That seems to be the general rule as each time they tell us something different!
Feb 10, 2023, 10:12 am
#577
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: BA Silver, TK E+, AA PP, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 13,051
That's the problem. Each agent seems to make up their own rules about which queue you can use, whether or not to stamp your passport, whether to scan your TIE or your passport, etc.
FWIW, only BCN has a large separation between the EU passport control and everybody else. At MAD it's far more mixed, unless you've come in behind a couple of long haul flights and they've made an effort to separate the arrivals.
FWIW, only BCN has a large separation between the EU passport control and everybody else. At MAD it's far more mixed, unless you've come in behind a couple of long haul flights and they've made an effort to separate the arrivals.
Apr 22, 2024, 10:05 pm
#579
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Scotland, Spain
Programs: Skywards Gold, Amex Plat, SkyTeam Silver
Posts: 1,166
In some good news from Palma, it looks like the Module A lounge is getting a much, much needed refurb. Same location but opens up to a much larger area with similar style furniture as the other three lounges at the airport.
Couldn't get a timeframe of when it would open.
Couldn't get a timeframe of when it would open.
Apr 23, 2024, 1:43 am
#580
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Kent, UK
Programs: BA Gold; Virgin FF; United Airlines; American Airlines; and was frequent c/c churner - RIP!
Posts: 945
