Anyone been abroad recently and can advise about finger print checks at airports?

25 mins in Rome.... Exit though was super quick and efficient. Don't worry

Never had any delays whatsoever and have flown into EU a number of times since it came in. But I'm flying from Shannon on a UK passport. When the plane lands it is all Irish EU passports. Non EU is about 20 of us. That's probably why.

I flew into & out of PMI 3 weeks ago. Absolutely no delays or issues with the EES system or automated kiosks whatsoever. In fact it was very well organised.

I also had no issues with EES at MUC & CDG in the last few months. As usual the media appear to be taking a few isolated incidents & hyping them out of all proportion to reality.

I did it In Malaga - queues moved quickly although there were a few elderly people who were a little confused and slower at it.

Landed mid morning in Palma three weeks ago, queued for around 20 minutes. Late night flight home (11pm ish) and walked straight up to the gates with no queues.

Did you have to register your fingerprints on the way out too?

How do people who think ees operates in Glasgow or London airports manage to work the website to buy a ticket? Does their mum do it for them?

Fom NY? I dont understand I thought this was a EU Schengen thing. And why finger prints when leaving the country?

just back from NY and it took minutes 😀

Flew in and out of Murcia recently

queue on way in look horrendous and we were 3/4 of way down it - it moved pretty fast and from landing , registering our fingerprints to collecting our luggage took about 30 mins.

on way home it took 5 mins

FWIW we arrived in Murcia mid morning on a Sunday and we returned on a late evening flight on a Friday

Was in Barcelona last week. Queue was very quick. Fingerprints only on arrival

So they take your fingerprints both on arrival and departure? I thought it was only on arrival.

just got back from Tenerife a few days ago (me, OH and two teens) and had no problems, but we were at the front of the queue for the machines, so didn’t have to wait long, although by the time we left, there was a queue, but it was all people from our plane, so that was understandable.

You press the language button, then you have to press and hold your passport onto the machine for scanning, then your face is scanned and then you put your fingers on the scanner. Probably under a minute per person, if you are efficient.

Life self checkouts, some of the delays are due to faffers - would be quicker if people prepared themselves whilst in the queue eg hands free, passports ready etc, rather than getting to the machines and acting all surprised.

I think the machines are the same everywhere sadly.

This is what confused me. I think you do it when you enter a Schengen country.

Can anyone say step by step what's expected at the destination airport?

My first trip was a Balearic island and it caused no delay at all, although in fairness I had no kids with me

Similar here.

The "hot" issue is the European Entry/Exit system that's in place for entry/exit of the Schengen Zone...at European airports.

Not sure what system is causing problems at UK airports.

Please tell me not Lanzarote... Going there next week with my extreme lash wearing DDs.

We got back from Malaga a week ago and it was much better than I'd anticipated. We had to register for the EES when we landed in Spain but the queues for the machines moved quickly so we were only waiting a few minutes. It took us both a while to get a photo it would accept, though. Lots of "move to the left... don't blink... stand on the marker..." before it was happy.

We then spent around 10 minutes at the e-gates because every single person scanned their passport, did the photo, then had to wait for a manual decision by a member of staff.

There was no delay at all coming back – straight through the e-gate to security.

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I flew in February from Newcastle. No issues going out. We had to queue for 2 1/2 hours in Futeventura. I think the delays were genuinely down to the airport staff trying to be helpful by putting families with under 12's in separate lines. This caused familles to question where to go etc etc if they had different ages. I wouldn't overthink it. Have a fabulous holiday

Nor at Heathrow or London City which I have flown out of multiple times this year - this thread is all news to me!

We did them in the spring and it was super easy. Literally from the plane to getting in the taxi in 15 minutes max. Didn’t take any longer than normal. Coming back it was actually the easiest, fastest boarding I’ve ever had on Ryanair.

Been through twice, including last week
really straightforward and no delays

I'm flying to Amsterdam next week. At which end do I need to deal with this, at Luton airport or at Schiphol?

No fingerprint at Glasgow airport