While air traffic is disrupted by a much more urgent threat, the regular process of crossing borders is disrupted itself, Iran or no.
Ryanair runs a flight (FR4756) from Lanzarote, in the (Spanish) Canary Islands, to Bristol (England). Since the United Kingdom is not part of the European Union, its citizens must undergo biometric checks as part of the Entry/Exit System (EES). And that takes time.
“Eighty-nine passengers booked on flight FR4756 to Bristol were reportedly stuck in non-European Union (EU) lines awaiting passport checks. The airline held the aircraft for around an hour but ultimately departed without dozens of customers, offloading their checked baggage before takeoff.”
Ryanair claimed it was the passengers’ fault:
“Should these passengers have presented at the boarding gate desk before it closed, they would have boarded this flight.”
But when it takes longer to get through an airport’s security than you expect, a new type of friction results: incensed passengers.
Predictably, the airline industry is urging that EES be delayed. Kinda like what happened over here, where REAL ID still hasn’t really been implemented.
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