The new EU passport control system for non-EU is totally idiotic and crap and will permanently make holidaying in Europe worse

I said that too but the pp says not. Maybe officious border guards but in two different places.

Plenty of countries don't want loads of tourists. Venice is another example.

They will know where a flight comes from. And they do have the signs above the queues.

I now live in Italy, and whether entering through Rome, Milan or Naples the e-gates for UK passport holders are always virtually empty and much quicker than those for EU passport holders. But, I expect come the main holiday season that will not be tht case.

Conversely I have flown into Geneva 3 times since the rules changed, where it's peak ski season, and despite a semblance of a queue for the kiosks it's been chaos every time. A taste of what's to come in peak summer season elsewhere I suspect. As I don't particularly need to travel at peak times my plan is to avoid them :)

Hmm

Think about an institution that chooses to make things super easy for a select few number of people, but decides to make things hard and difficult for the rest of the world? Why not have a smooth border system for everyone?

I'm Seville bound at Easter and don't know what to expect as haven't come up against the new system yet. My friend just had a lads weekend in Tenerife and passport queue on landing was 2 hours

How can it be punishment when it affects every non EU country! It's worse for Brits because come school holidays, you'll have several flights of brits landing every hour in certain destinations! There is no punishment but when you are the majority traveller to a place you don't vote to make it ten times harder for yourself!

But the difference is you get a lot of Brits descending on the same few places at the same time. That's why it causes chaos, my friend just had a long lads weekend in Tenerife, passport queue took him two hours on arrival. When you've got places that have flight after flight after flight landing from the UK, it's not advisable to make it much harder for Brits to get in!

How can anyone know you are from the UK before you actually get to a kiosk or counter! They know anyway that most of the UK didn't vote for Brexit! 17m out of 70m is hardly unanimous.

Many? You mean Spain? There's like 190 odd countries in the world!

I hadn't been to Europe since before Covid and what completely blindsided me was going through the passport machines on my return flight AFTER going through security. I just had no idea this was a thing, and that it would take so long. Last year I've been to both America and Thailand and coming back, you just casually walk towards the gate. In Malaga you had to factor in another 30 mins to go through the passport machines AGAIN! Just factor in the extra time and don't dilly dally around at the airport, looking at shops or eating.

God you were lucky. I nearly missed my flight back from Malaga a few weeks ago as it took about half an hour to get through the passport machines. A lot weren't working and there were no staff to help. The only reason I didn't miss my flight was because my flight was delayed! It was really stressful.

Well I would have said we are better than that and not a country that behaves in such a pathetic way but who knows these days.

Yes the UK let's all eu citizens through egates. Maybe we should " punish" them in return

We did it recently going to Lanzarote and it was easy peasy. Truly the fastest I’ve ever gone from plane to taxi in my life. Similar on departure. We cruised right on through. Instead of queuing twice, once for passport control and then again to board, it was one queue. 15 minutes and the entire plane was on board. It was really easy.

That said, the cognitive dissonance of everyone who voted for Brexit now tantruming about the challenges of travel to the EU! 😂

We flew to Chambery at Feb half term so as busy as that airport ever gets. The longest queue I stood in was for the loo. Nothing seemed very different to when I last flew 5 or 6 years ago - we just went up to a man in a booth who checked our passports. Everyone was in one queue for these booths. Can airports choose to implement these systems or not? We were expecting something involving fingerprints.

And yet we queued for ages. The flight to the Netherlands was quicker than passport control!

( and I dread to think with Amsterdam (rather than Dubai) being a route for long haul flights.

We haven't been abroad since early 2020 and reading these comments is making me flustered. I've never found airports easy to navigate then came digital tickets, QR codes - now kiosks & different queues.

We flew back from Lanzarote recently and there was a queue system for the kiosks it was fast, staffed appropriately and very easy

I went to Italy in February and it was fine. Maybe people who voted for Brexit (based on your last sentence) are just a bit hard of thinking….

You can travel on either of your passports (making sure the surname matches that on the ticket). Boarding passport check is just to show that your passport matches the name on the ticket; it’s not the same as border control.

You take both passports with you. Leaving the EU, you show your EU passport as you pass immigration. When you arrive to the UK, you show your British passport at immigration.

I’m a dual, and travel often on the Eurostar, which annoyingly isn’t set up on their passport registration for dual citizens. Leaving France, I show my EU passport first, and then show the UK one. Leaving St Pancras, its vice versa.