To consider cancelling my holiday because of the EES?

It literally is as we are now 3rd nation status

What?! You’d be at the original airport so you’d get your bag and recheck it.

You won’t get stuck in some infinite loop of checking your bag and then not getting through security. Plus Ryanair will accept your bag earlier most likely. I’ve checked a Ryanair bag more than 2 hours in advance before, and if they know the queues are so bad they definitely will. If you think you’re going to miss your flight, alert staff and ask what to do. No one wants the hassle of having to take your bag off the plane, they’d rather get you on the plane with it.

And I’d be taking Ryanair to small claims court if they wanted to charge me for a replacement flight if they booked me on one that was impossible to catch.

Worst case scenario, get yourself to a lesser affected airport and fly from there - there’s plenty a train ride from Milan.

Also nothing you just described is the end of the world.

You’re hugely overreacting.

I’m in Italy at the moment. Got to Heathrow 90 minutes before the flight left, dropped my bags, as normal, it was fine. I didn’t even remember there was a new system till I got to Rome airport.

OP you are catastrophising. There is no EU law about getting to the airport 3 hrs in advance. Maybe the queues will be a bit longer than last time. Just fly as normal.

I’m not sure I understand what your flight landing at 9.30 has to do with it? Presumably that’s what you were expecting?

My DH has travelled to Milan a few times in recent months as his company has an office there. There was one flight in then news that people missed at the start wasn’t there but hundreds of flights leave every day without any issue. He’s not had a problem, he started off getting there a bit earlier than usual but has stopped now as he just was sitting around for so long as the queues were minimal.

I’m just back from Spain. Less time to get in and out of Spain than usual. Portugal was slightly busier getting into the country but getting out never seems to be as bad. Don’t take hold luggage though if it’s worrying you. An underseat bag and a cabin suitcase is usually enough?

What?!! It's fine. I did it this week. Arrived at Köln airport. Registered for it at a kiosk. Took a couple of mins. Then waited about 15 mins to go through. Flew from Gatwick. Did nothing there.
Came home. At Köln, went through PP control. They scanned my passport. I put my fingers on the pad. Was all fine.
Don't stress about it and enjoy your holiday.
They can revert to normal if problems build.

No, you can't go because of your anxiety.

Thousands are flying with absolutely no problems.
With the numbers of people flying there will inevitably be issues with a small %

While it's not ideal when your suitcase doesn't make it to the same destination, it really isn't the end of the world

I've been there when they were long queues and they shout out the flight number and you go to the front of the queue
however, I would suggest that the original poster doesn't actually want solutions they just want to panic

It can’t be impossible for you to get your flight, that makes no sense.

YANBU that Brexit is a pile of shite though.

I'm going on holiday in 2 weeks and am not worrying about it. It's likely it will be fine and at worst I'm sure the airline will sort you out. Cancelling is an extreme reaction - relax it will all work out in the end. Go and enjoy your holiday.

We just came back from Germany today. We arrived at the airport 2.5 hours in advance. I think something that does catch some people out on leaving the EU is that you go through security into departures but only go through passport control at the gate.

If you are really anxious, I would get there as early as possible (3 hours, wait until bag drop opens if hold luggage), go straight through security and then join the passport control queue. Don’t browse duty free/settle in for a meal, just grab water and anything you need as facilities beyond passport control are minimal, and then join the queue.

We were told “a few minutes” and it took half an hour with every desk open. I hate to think what it’s like on a day when several non-EU flights are leaving simultaneously, but I think you’d be unlucky to miss a flight home if you go straight to passport control - and you won’t miss the flight from the U.K. as EES is done on arrival in the country if you’re flying.

Yes, but you wouldn't be in the Shengen area

And don't really on Google ai summaries they OFTEN talk absolute shite.

You’re being ridiculous.

It’s extremely common for people to be ushered to the front of queues if they’re going to miss their flight. And is it really the end of the world if you do miss it and get on the next one instead? Your bag is unlikely to go home without you anyway as they’d take it off if you didn’t board. And so what if it did, you can pick it up when you get to your home airport!

Yet another inaccurate AI summary - OP they say "bag drop desk open at the latest 2 hours before flight departure" on the actual website, suggesting they are often open much earlier than that and more than likely will be for adapting to this new system, but AI is shit and makes stuff up!

https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-gb/articles/12890531028497-How-far-in-advance-can-I-drop-my-bag-at-the-bag-drop-counter

It's literally nothing to do with Brexit

I went to France last week and then to Denmark and didn’t have to do it. No queues at all. The biggest queue was leaving the EU to come home at the second passport control.

Is a profit making company really gonna make it so everyone misses the flight and they fly empty? Come on now stop panicking and engage your logical brain.

Yes but if 100% of Ryanair passengers were missing their flight because of their policy they would have changed it by now. Most people must be getting to their destination with their suitcases. The odds are in your favor on this