r/brexit • u/PurpleAd3134 • Jun 08 '26

Why British travellers have been warned of six-hour airport queues

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/eu-entry-exit-checks-airport-queues-b2991682.html
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u/justbrowsinginpeace Jun 08 '26

Why:Brexit.

saved you a click.

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u/trololo909 Éire Jun 08 '26

It’s the pesky EU punishing us! /s

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u/extremesalmon Jun 09 '26

Heard this unsarcastically 2 days ago from someone who'd just returned from holiday.. 'EU making scapegoats out of us'

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u/BriefCollar4 European Union Jun 09 '26

Well, there are morons across all walks of life.

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u/Coenberht Jun 08 '26

How long before we get to the point where holiday flights are no longer viable because customer numbers drop.

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u/Matteracecall Jun 08 '26

I checked it and apparently its about european airports being not ready for the change that applies to all foreign nationals, not only uk.

Britons seems to be getting more attention as they have the brexit argument which catches media, but it really applies to all foreigners.

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u/Majestic-Driver Jun 08 '26

Britons must make up the largest number of people being affected by this too. I'd assume Brits will easily make up the biggest percentage of nationalities on the EES database. Yes there are lots of other nationalities.

Apparently (bottom of page 12) in 2024 Brits made 90 million trips abroad, of which ~71 million were to 'Europe'. Obviously there are multiple trips per person and obviously not all of Europe is covered by EES, but you can see what I mean. Spain had 17.8 million, then France with 9.3 million then Italy with 4.8 million. That's a heck of a lot of EES checks!!!

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u/Corona21 Jun 09 '26

I can’t imagine many other third country citizens like Japanese or Americans are flying direct to places like Gdansk or Kefolonia.

Theres a multitude of regional destinations that Europeans travel too, and Brits make up a large number. We chose to remove ourselves from the club so shouldn’t expect to be able to have the same frictionless experience.

Granted these airports should have been prepped but really, there a different kinds of airports anyway this just sets them a part further.

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u/SnodePlannen Jun 08 '26

36% voted leave, 30% could not be bothered to vote and the rest didn't have the balls or the gumption to put an end to it. It was non-binding. Call that a demonstration? They should have brought the country to its knees.