Travel fears over ‘big bang’ launch of EU border system in autumn 2024
Ryanair has warned that the EU’s much-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES) is not yet fit for testing – even though the European Commission has vowed to launch the “smart borders” project at a single moment next year.
The Independent has studied the evidence provided by Europe’s biggest budget airline to the UK Parliament’s European Scrutiny Committee. It backs up concerns expressed privately by senior travel industry figures about the risks involved in imposing the Entry/Exit System at a single moment.
But insists the pan-European linkage of that “no ‘soft launch’ is foreseen” for the new system.
