Beware Lines for Passport Control (between lounge and gates) at Lisbon (LIS)
Jul 15, 2016, 5:44 am
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Beware Lines for Passport Control (between lounge and gates) at Lisbon (LIS)
On UA65 right now by a stroke of luck.
Thought I would leave the lounge 30 min before departure time.....big mistake
Passport control line approx 60 min long and only TAP agents were originally available allowing TAP customers only to bypass line for departing flights...
Finally after 20 min a UA agent came to allow UA customers to bypass the line for the imminently departing flight.
This may be summer time travel in Europe, but I haven't seen anything close to this.....
Thought I would leave the lounge 30 min before departure time.....big mistake
Passport control line approx 60 min long and only TAP agents were originally available allowing TAP customers only to bypass line for departing flights...
Finally after 20 min a UA agent came to allow UA customers to bypass the line for the imminently departing flight.
This may be summer time travel in Europe, but I haven't seen anything close to this.....
Jul 15, 2016, 7:35 am
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Jul 15, 2016, 8:03 am
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Sorry but who leaves a lounge that is not already beyond passport control only 30 minutes before a flight? As noted, even if there was no line at passport control or secondary security, you could have been considered a no-show. Indeed, the fact that you made your flight should not be considered an indictment of LIS security practices (I see 60 minute nonpreferred lines at CDG T1 all of the time).
Jul 15, 2016, 8:46 am
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Jul 15, 2016, 10:49 am
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Lisbon's lounge is apparently between security and passport control. I think the OP's heart is in the right place to warn people about that.
Jul 15, 2016, 10:54 am
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Jul 15, 2016, 10:54 am
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Jul 15, 2016, 11:34 am
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As this is generic to all airlines and not just UA, will move this to the Spain/Portugal/Gibraltar forum.
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Jul 16, 2016, 4:24 am
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LIS passport control is routinely bad in peak times in the summer. Usually the lines are worse on inbound passport control than on the outbound passport control. Do give yourself 20 mins to go through it as it can get backed up when all the South- and North-America-bound flights leave mid-morning.
Jul 18, 2016, 5:08 am
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Good news!!! As of today, US citizens (and citizens of 8 more countries) can start using the automated passport gates at LIS.