New Europe border checks start tomorrow — brace yourself for 4-hour airport delays

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A collage of a passport, a plane and several fingerprints, with EU border system kiosks in the background.
The EU’s new entry and exit system is launching imminently (Picture: Metro)

Holidaymakers are set face airport delays of up to four hours because of the EU’s new biometric entry and exit checks being rolled out.

All travellers from the UK and other non-EU countries must be photographed and fingerprinted at EU airports and border points under the new entry and exit system (EES) when it becomes fully operational on April 10.

And the Home Office and travel experts have a message for travellers: allow extra time to arrive on either side of the journey because of predicted queues of up to four hours at the Read Entire Article