The full rollout of the EU’s new digital digital entry/exit system — EES for short — has been pushed back to September to avoid delays over what will be an exceptionally busy summer for travel. The €20 ETIAS travel authorisation is linked to the EES system and will follow it by six months. It is no…

I don’t understand why you keep dismissing these snafus, reported by a bunch of outlets and on social media. The head of Ryanair has come out against the troubled rollout, for instance. It’s no surprise to me, having experienced the soft rollout myself and seen firsthand how illogically it was run.…

[image] TheEnglishFlaneur: It’s clickbait headlines trying to catastrophise the introduction of EES. The clickbait below is trying to come up with advice on how to avoid the glitches [image] TheEnglishFlaneur: Their are glitches Yes, there are, and they surely will be solved in the fu…

I saw the BBC article yesterday and I agree it’s more clickbait. You can’t avoid the delays, you can to a certain extent mitigate but not much more. If you’ve got a long line of numpties in front of you there’s nothing you can do about that.

Michael O’Leary the head of Ryanair is notorious for his sound bites, he’s ranked of one of the most disliked persons in the UK and Ireland. He doesn’t empathise at all, just tells people to ‘suck it up’. Here are two quotes from him, many would be deleted from this forum ““We think passengers who f…

Common sense: Do the math. Even if everything worked perfectly, a few minutes multiplied by hundreds of passengers on one flight, much more if multiple flights, means significantly longer wait times. And who’s reporting that things are going swimmingly? Which airports? That actually would be news. …

Find me a news outlet that reports good news, they are few and far between. News tends to focus on bad stuff. We’re never going to see a headline “queues of less than 5 minutes at ……… for EES”. What’s the total # of passengers using EES each day? It’s millions. Do the maths now and see what % have …

Reminds me of a tour guide I had in Korea decades ago. Complained that no one was reporting that all the other bridges were working fine, after one had collapsed.

BTW, anticipating snafus like this, I look for direct flights (so no chance of connecting delays) or, when forced to connect, look for long layovers. That way, I buffer myself and if things go swimmingly I enjoy a leisurely meal and some airport browsing and people watching. Probably other proactive…

It maybe that I’m less affected by queues/lines than many and that’s possibly from being a soldier, where waiting around was often the order of the day. Hurry up and wait as we used to say. I do empathise with families who are travelling with young children, older travellers who might be a little in…

With lines and traffic, I avoid when possible and, when not, keep cool and with perspective — it’s a privilege to travel, so I won’t get frazzled. But from the POV of liking to see things done well, or at least efficiently, I’m not at all surprised by the bumbling going on. I’m sure many people are…

Update to Schengen EES (Entry and Exit System)

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TheEnglishFlaneur 15 April 2026 15:32 44

I found that there is a Frontex app that can be used to partially pre-register some of the EES data, to try and reduce the wait time.

It’s use is very limited at the moment.

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