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Arrive three hours before flight home, airline boss tells UK holidaymakers

British holidaymakers should arrive at European airports three hours before their flight home departs due to lengthy queues caused by new border checks, the UK boss of budget airline Wizz Air has warned.

Yvonne Moynihan told the BBC the long delays getting through passport control at some European airports had caused some passengers to miss return or connecting flights.

Airports said queues were worsening under the Entry Exit System (EES) which requires travellers to register fingerprints.

But a European Commission spokesperson said EES was working well at "almost all border crossing points".

ACI Europe, a trade body for airports, told the BBC that passengers should arrive at airports according to the time set out by their airline.

Britons travelling home via EU airports ‘should allow three hours’ before flights

Entry-exit system, which replaces passport stamps with digital registration, causing huge delays at border checks

British passengers returning home via European airports should arrive three hours before their flights are due to depart, an airline boss has advised, amid concerns about new security procedures causing large queues.

The EU entry-exit system (EES), which replaces passport stamps with a digital registration, has been gradually been introduced in Europe since October 2025 and became fully operational last month. Some passengers have faced huge delays at border checks, airports have said.

As part of the system, biometric checks are done on entry and exit for non-EU citizens. On Saturday, Wizz Air boss Yvonne Moynihan said: “Because there is another passport check … that’s where we see that people have, again, experienced longer waiting times than anticipated.”

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