Airlines and airports urge EU “flexibility” to pause EES border checks as summer queues spur 5-hour delays
European airlines and airport groups are pressing EU officials for an urgent intervention on Entry/Exit System (EES) immigration checks, warning of “chaos” if queues become unmanageable in July and August. Ryanair says it has identified seven high-volume airports seeing long Entry/Exit queues, with wait times reaching five hours or more, and is demanding the EU scrap EES checks until September.