Allow three hours before flight home due to EES delays, airline boss warns

Passengers should allow up to three hours for their return flight to the UK due to border delays, an airline boss has warned (Picture: AFP)

Holidaymakers should allow several hours before their return fight to the UK, an airline boss has warned.

Passengers are facing delays at borders due to the implementation of the EU’s Entry Exit System (EES).

Wizz Air UK director Yvonne Moynihan said some travellers were missing flights after getting held up at passport control while leaving several European countries.

Under the new scheme, passengers from third countries entering and leaving the Schengen zone are required to provide fingerprints and facial biometrics.

Some 80 million p...