TIE - Passport Checks
May 14th 2024, 9:21 am
#77
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Re: TIE - Passport Checks
Came back through Málaga airport passport control this evening ..The only points open were non EU . The queue moved through fairly quickly with the sound of constant passports being stamped. We handed our passports and TIEs over together and after checking both we were through with no stamp. All very smooth .
May 14th 2024, 10:22 am
#78
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Re: TIE - Passport Checks
Interesting how this is always a lottery. Not that it matters, I never pay attention to those stamps but merely keep my boarding passes for future reference. If anyone questions why something doesn't add up I'll just lay out the BPs and then they can point the blame wherever they want (not my problem)...
May 16th 2024, 8:22 am
#79
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Re: TIE - Passport Checks
What airport has different lanes for UK nationals and a separate one for EU nationals? Any one I have been through in the last 5 years there's been 2 lanes, one for UK, EU and a few other countries, and one for everyone else.
Jun 17th 2024, 11:39 pm
#80
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Re: TIE - Passport Checks
We went back to the UK for a few days returning to Malaga last night. On the way out of Malaga, I noticed the EU lane has now been properly separated off with EU/non EU people going in different directions to different booths so no more lane blocking. There was quite a queue at the non EU section but nothing too terrible. EES scanners have been installed but obviously not operational yet.
Coming back last night was chaos. Our flight was channelled to the non Schengen section of the airport and we initially went past about 20 EES scanners covered in plastic. We then approached a ramp type walkway I have never seen before and the queue was backed up to the top and the area in the hall beneath us was literally packed full of people snaking round the barriers in a massive queue . It took a while to realise that EU and non EU people were all being held up on the ramp and EU people (mostly Irish) were unable to get the the EU queue. In the end, it was so clogged up, a border guard let some British people into the EU queue to relieve the pressure on the ramp (weight presumably) which meant our queue became much longer and slower (because of checking through the pages of each passport and passport stamping) and quite a few of my Irish compatriots were complaining. I noticed that as soon as they had cleared what they considered to be an adequate number of people from the ramp, they stopped British people joining our queue and they had to join the incredibly long and slow moving third country queue.
I think the greater segregation that will come about with EES and ETIAS will benefit everyone because the current system is not great but I assume it's only temporary until October.
Coming back last night was chaos. Our flight was channelled to the non Schengen section of the airport and we initially went past about 20 EES scanners covered in plastic. We then approached a ramp type walkway I have never seen before and the queue was backed up to the top and the area in the hall beneath us was literally packed full of people snaking round the barriers in a massive queue . It took a while to realise that EU and non EU people were all being held up on the ramp and EU people (mostly Irish) were unable to get the the EU queue. In the end, it was so clogged up, a border guard let some British people into the EU queue to relieve the pressure on the ramp (weight presumably) which meant our queue became much longer and slower (because of checking through the pages of each passport and passport stamping) and quite a few of my Irish compatriots were complaining. I noticed that as soon as they had cleared what they considered to be an adequate number of people from the ramp, they stopped British people joining our queue and they had to join the incredibly long and slow moving third country queue.
I think the greater segregation that will come about with EES and ETIAS will benefit everyone because the current system is not great but I assume it's only temporary until October.
