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EES rollout status, documented border queues and traveller reports across 125 Schengen airports. Live wait times appear when travellers in the queue report them. Free for editorial use with attribution.

Airports tracked
125
EES live
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Worst peak reported
4h
Documented disruptions
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EES waits are crowd-sourced — the only real signal comes from travellers in the queue. In a Schengen border line right now? Tap your airport below and report your wait for entry or exit; it appears here within a minute.
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FAO Faro, Portugal+39 min
EES border waits, entering & exiting Schengen — live ranking
  • FAO Faro
    Portugal
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    90-min queues persist; Portugal notified EU May 29 of biometric suspension right; up to 6-hr suspensions at peak now authorized for summer
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    2+ hr queues persist into Jun; flagged summer pressure point alongside Palma and Alicante; UK travel industry calls for urgent action
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    Flagged summer pressure point Jun 2026; 1-2 hr queues at peak; kiosk malfunctions force manual fallback; added immigration staff
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    161 kiosks across arrival filters; extra Marechaussee counters and redesigned waiting areas added; morning wave queues persist (Schiphol Jun 2026)
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 2h 30m · June 2026 (~2.5h)
    Greece can pause biometric capture per crossing up to 6 hrs; EU clarified no blanket nationality exemption (May 14 2026); Wego Jun 10 2026 confirms still ~2.5h peak queues
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    Up to 3-hr queues at peak; peak biometric suspension authorised; operators warn of summer gridlock without more e-gates
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 4h · June 9, 2026 (4h arrivals)
    Loss of e-gate access overloaded manual booths; ~600 missed flights Apr 2026; govt called delays "unacceptable" May 10; airport CEO warned of "absolute chaos" for summer; Jun 9 arrivals hit 4h (BrusselsTimes)
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    Airport advises extra time critical for EES; identified as particularly vulnerable due to steady non-Schengen arrival flow and limited backlog-recovery time between waves
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 4h · mid-April 2026 (kiosks ~35% below forecast)
    Kiosk throughput ~35% below forecast; ~12 dedicated EES lanes; Parafe e-gates reopened as a workaround; T2E pre-enrolment pods now launched
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 1h 10m · April 2026 (still 1h+ six months in)
    Still 1h+ queues six months after launch; travellers "resigned to it"; summer expected to worsen delays
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · April 2026
    Manual-stamping fallback triggers at 45-min queue, in force through 30 Sep 2026 (nationwide)
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 2h · Apr 2026 morning peak (federal police data)
    Germany activated biometric flex mode (suspension up to 6 hrs at peaks); Fraport redeploying staff to immigration during afternoon Asia-arrival waves
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  • GVA Geneva
    Switzerland
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 4h · Dec 2025-Feb 2026 (kiosk freezes, worst-hit)
    Repeated kiosk/system freezes; worst-hit airport, advises arriving 4 hrs early; biometric flex mode active since May 2
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · Dec 2025 holiday + Apr 2026 (~1/3 kiosks offline)
    Up to 1/3 of 36 kiosks offline at peak plus border-guard shortage; 3-hr queues at Dec 2025 holiday and Apr 2026 launch; flex mode authorized to pause checks during surges
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · late April 2026 (kiosk malfunctions)
    Kiosk malfunctions forced border guards into a phone-photo workaround
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 4h · Apr 2026 (4h peak; Portugal Post)
    Biometric capture suspended Dec 2025; 4h peak queues Apr 2026 (Portugal Post); Portugal can pause capture up to 6 hrs per peak session; eased to ~60-70 min by Jun 2026 (Portugal Post); e-gates planned
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · April 2026 rollout week
    Peak biometric suspension authorised; EU activated flex mode May 4; hybrid stamping permitted at peak
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    1-2 hr queues at peak; staff shortages and system outages; Ryanair named MRS in France EES suspension request
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 2h · April 2026
    Germany activated biometric flex mode (suspension up to 6 hrs at peaks); 32,000 EES-wide refusals through May 18 per EU State of Schengen report
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · April 2026 (>100 pax missed a flight)
    Manual-stamping fallback triggers at 45-min queue through 30 Sep 2026; >100 pax missed a flight at peak
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    Manual-stamping fallback triggers at 45-min queue through 30 Sep 2026
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    1-2 hr queues persist; staff shortages and system outages; named by Ryanair in France EES suspension request
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 30 min · June 2026
    Portugal can pause biometric capture up to 6 hrs per peak session; queues down to ~30 min by Jun 2026; extra booths planned
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    4 dedicated EES lanes
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    14 officer-staffed EES control stations
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    No kiosks or e-gates; manual enrolment only, phased flight-by-flight from Jan 2026
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · April 2026 (UK-only lanes added)
    Up to 3-hr queues; AENA added 10 temporary kiosks + UK-only lanes; peak biometric suspension authorised; flagged summer pressure point
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · Dec 2025 crash + Apr 2026 offline kiosks
    System crash during Dec 2025 pilot; offline kiosks at April 10 launch; extra kiosks and police redeployed to Terminal 1; throughput improving gradually
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    No kiosks or e-gates; manual enrolment only, phased flight-by-flight from Jan 2026
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 2h · April 2026
    Hours-long queues during peak flights
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · April 2026
    Manual-stamping fallback triggers at 45-min queue through 30 Sep 2026
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · 13-14 April 2026 (3h, missed flights)
    Real enrolment runs >2 min/pax; 3-hr peaks caused missed flights on 13-14 Apr; Austria invoked EU flexibility to skip fingerprints during surges; extra kiosks planned mid-July
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 3h · late April 2026 (3h)
    3-hr peak queues; hardware reliability patchy; queue marshals deployed
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  • ZRH Zurich
    Switzerland
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    Exiting: Not enough dataLivePeak: 2h · May 2026
    Biometric flex mode active since May 2; officers may skip fingerprint capture during peak surges; 8 more self-service booths planned before July holidays
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