Airlines and airports call for suspension of EU entry-exit system during peak summer periods

Airlines and airports have warned that they have reached a “critical point” in the implementation of the new EU biometric border control system, calling for more powers for countries to completely ...

Airlines call for 'immediate intervention' in EU entry-exit system

Airlines call for ‘immediate intervention’ in EU entry-exit system before situation deteriorates further - Airlines and ...
The Economist

Europe’s airport queues are extremely long—and getting longer

Exasperated visitors (mostly Americans and Britons, for whom travel to Europe is supposed to be a visa-free breeze) have ...
i

The worst airports for EES queues – with waits of up to six hours

Britons travelling to popular destinations such as Spain, Portugal and Italy could face border queues of up to six hours, experts have warned, as research suggests tourist hot spots could lose ...
algarvedailynews

Queues at Faro Airport prompt Government to pledge solutions, in interest of ‘protecting international image’

Politicians from the Algarve branch of the governing PSD (Social Democratic Party) have revealed that the Minister for Internal Administration, Luís Neves, has pledged to introduce measures aimed at ...
LBC

Ferry passengers told to prepare for long queues and delays at Port of Dover

Ferry passengers have been warned they could face long queues and delays travelling through the Port of Dover over the Bank Holiday due to EU border checks. The port is preparing for 18,000 travellers ...
portugalresident

European Commission “denies its EES system is cause of airport queues”

The European Commission denies that airport queues in Portugal are due to the new European Union (EU) border Entry/Exit System (EES) – in spite of the fact that they began on implementation of the ...
ringcentral

Call queue management: Strategies, tools, and best practices for contact centers

Queue management sits between every inbound contact and the agent who answers it. When queue management fails, it fails quietly at first. A few calls sit in a queue 30 seconds too long. An agent ...
businesstravelnewseurope

EES implementation causing ‘significant disruption’, say aviation groups

Aviation groups have warned that the full implementation of the EU’s Entry-Exit System (EES) has resulted in longer waiting times of up to three hours and a significant number of passengers missing ...
GitHub

Simple, efficient, and reliable messaging queue for Ruby.

Falqon is a simple messaging queue implementation, backed by the in-memory Redis key-value store. It exposes a simple Ruby API to send and receive messages between different processes, between threads ...
businesstravelnewseurope

EU’s Entry-Exit System starts long-awaited implementation

The EU’s long-awaited Entry-Exit System (EES) has finally been launched after a multitude of delays. The six-month phased introduction of the digital border control system started on Sunday (12 ...