Europe's aviation industry said the new Entry/Exit System (EES) could cause waits of up to five hours
The EU will ramp up efforts to resolve the bloc’s new border check system issues, migration chief Magnus Brunner wrote in a letter seen by AFP Sunday, after airports and airlines blamed it for disruption.
The European aviation industry warned in a joint letter Wednesday that the new Entry/Exit System (EES) was causing wait times of up to five hours, calling on the EU to act now to prevent summer travel chaos.
The European Commission “will now make additional efforts to help those member states that still encounter issues,” Brunner said in the letter dated July 3.
The new system replaces manual passport stamping and records travellers’ personal and biometric data to track overstays and refusals of entry.
