To consider cancelling my holiday because of the EES?

So don't put anything in your suitcase that you could not manage without if necessary. They do have shops in Milan you know.

You’re being overdramatic. We flew from Southend to Alicante. 45 mins through the airport.

Alicante to fly back, over an hour to spare!

Book from smaller airports, just take cabin luggage.

I connected in CDG and I was super worried as, though I had almost three hours, I had been booked on separate tickets and, thus, I wasn't protected (though with only carry-on luggage, I could still stay airside). It took me about 90 seconds to go through passport control, using the egates. And another 90 seconds for security (maybe 2 minutes there).

Leaving from Paris (not a connection) it was slower as the priority lines weren't using egates (but you couldn't see this until you were committed to those lines) but still less than 10 minutes (probably more like five minutes). Security, again, slower but still maybe 10-15 minutes.

by the way, the EES process is identical to the EU citizens ( i am one, my husband is british), the only difference is that i had to stand and take a picture, whereas my husband had to do fingerprints too, but that added just 10 seconds.

also, families with children went through the manned desk, so that eliminates a lot of people from the other queue.

i flew from rome ciampino yesterday

they have self service bag check in and we were allowed to check in 3.5 hours prior to flight

we were allowed to go into the terminal 3 hours before the flight

ciampino is a small airport and there was no queue foe the EES last step before the gate

the last step might be a bit busier in milan. but i would be surprised of the other times were different in milan.

anyway, i’m sure things will be better over the summer, even portugal, notorious for their delays, have added machines and personnel to speed things through.

I am just back from Lanzarote, flying with easy jet, Lanzarote was supposedly one of the worst airports for queues and delays.
This was not the case for us.
Going out from Manchester, it didn't take much longer than usual. The only hold up was because my fingerprints wouldn't register, but it was soon sorted.
Coming home, once the border control opened, quick and easy.

Flew to Tenerife with my 4 year old, which has been in the news about the EES system. and queues outside the airport.

I had checked bags.

My experience… I was off the plane through security and into my transfer within 40 minutes. I was the last person off the plane. There was a long queue, I had to see a border guard, as I was travelling with my daughter, but it went down fairly quickly. All of the adults without kids just headed to the egates and straight out.

On my way home, I arrived 3.5 hours before, checked my bags again. Security took 5 minutes, the border check leaving took 20 minutes and then I was just waiting around for an hour and a half before the flight.

it was over a bank holiday and was very busy.

I was nervous about the queues, especially flying out without my husband and an impatient toddler but all was fine.

If you choose not to go, then that’s your choice, you can’t blame it on anything else.

I've flown through Germany and Spain in the last few weeks. All fine.

You keep referring to what's been on sky news
But I've seen them say on sky news that RyanAir has said that they'll be opening the check in earlier anyway
So it's all ok

Hand luggage only and stop listening to the news…?

Have a lovely holiday and think about some therapy when you get back, catastrophising is not good for your stress levels.

This is not about Brexit, it is about Schengen which we were not in anyway.
Get on the flight, it is most likely going to be fine. Go without hold luggage if you're really stressed about it.

Gosh. Sorry but you’re totally overwhelmed and catastrophising, and saying it’s the ‘end of the world’ shows you’re leading quite the privileged life. Chill

Exactly. EU citizens have to get a prior authorisation to enter the UK as well.

Starmer's actually done loads to improve relations with the EU and strengthen ties, but of course he couldn't prevent this system being implemented or get the UK out of it, regardless of what is happening with Arsenal.

I flew to Cologne last week with Ryanair and thought the queues on arrival were similar to what they have been for some time - the days of swanning through the EU gates are long gone. It was a bit of a queue to get through passport control on the way home- around 20 minutes, nothing drastic.

I got a notification from Ryanair saying to get there 3 hours early and I loved the way it said something like 'These new rules are nothing to do with Ryanair. It will be the EU's fault if you miss your flight, not ours!' or something like that. I love the Ryanair style of communication.

It was in the papers last week that the airports handling a lot of UK tourists are dropping it for the summer. Keep an eye open, Milan is quite likely to.

I'm not travelling, so didn't bother looking into the details, but it seems like they're just going to wave the Brits through!

To be fair, Ryanair is more than happy if you miss your flight and have to pay to take the next one.

You are seeing problems where there aren’t any/there are few.

if you don’t want to go that’s fine. Don’t. But lots of people, myself included have used the new scheme with ease.

how much do you want the holiday? Because even if I did end up queuing, it would still be worth it to me

How? Why would the EU agree? We left. It was our choice. You don’t get to be half in (even though we had a very favourable semi-detached arrangement before). We’ll never get any sort of concession again unless there’s mutual gain.

🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely this. OP charter a private plane or fake disability, book assistance and you’ll sail through. Or go to Blackpool.

Mate. I hate Brexit. I hate the idiots that voted for it. But it is now what it is. You’re being over the top.

You don’t sound like yoyll enjoy the holiday so cancel it. Your prerogative .

Yes and Brexshit has made it impossible for me to go because I can't afford the thousands it would cost for travel insurance because I have cancer . I was denied by most and quoted 2, 500 pounds for 1 weeks insurance. 😡

Ive just travelled from Milan (Linate) on Thursday. I have dual citizenship so went through on my EU passport, but the queue for non-EU was totally fine and nobody missed their flight. (I flew into Malpensa and the queue at passport control coming in was fine, too).
I’ve taken over 20 flights so far this year, and not seen any major issues (as in - people missing flights issues) so you’re more than likely going to be just ok.

Ryanair emailed us to say we should allow extra time at the airport. So we turned up 2.5 (rather than 2) hours before check in, only to be told when we got there that Ryanair don’t open check in until 2 hours before a flight!

It depends where you’re going - not all airports have adopted the EES yet. For the ones that have, it does not take that much longer than before; once you have done the initial scan, the e-gates are much quicker. Just get to the airport with plenty of time to spare and you’ll be fine.

If I’d booked a holiday with a travel agent who gave me an emergency number to ring if things went wrong they’d absolutely be the first person I’d be ringing it I missed my flight!
my friend also works in travel and has the emergency phone - it gets called a lot! (More than it should tbh)