Three ways to avoid costly delays from EU's new airport border checks

Some travelers have missed flights and incurred unexpected costs; one family paid £250 for replacement flights after a 90-minute queue delay.

A new European digital border system, designed to register the fingerprints and photographs of arriving travellers, has introduced an unfamiliar friction into the ancient rhythm of summer migration. What takes moments per person becomes something else entirely when multiplied across thousands of holidaymakers moving through the same terminals on the same days. The system is not going away, and neither is the summer — so the burden of adaptation falls, as it often does, on the individual traveller, who must now plan not just for the journey, but for the queue that precedes it.

Three ways to avoid costly delays from EU's new airport border checks

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