Europe’s Airlines Brace For New Border Controls

Border control employee sitting in front of laptop and gates

European Entry-Exit requirements can be suspended if lines are too long at busy times.

Credit: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images
Passengers arriving at European airports soon will have their travel, identification and biometric data collected via the new European Entry-Exit System that is due to come into force—after repeated delays—on Oct. 12. Europe’s airports and airlines are cautiously confident that, after months of back...
Helen Massy-Beresford

Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.

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