Labour ministers are warned UK air travellers face huge queues at European airports due to new EU border rules

Holidaymakers volition instrumentality up to 4 times longer to process astatine European airports aft caller post-Brexit borderline rules are activated, ministers person been warned. 

Aviation chiefs person told Government officials that millions of British fliers look chaos crossed the Continent erstwhile the European Union's 'entry-exit' strategy (EES) goes unrecorded successful October. 

They fearfulness it volition spark immense queues successful immoderate European airdrome arrivals halls and perchance formation cancellations with planes near waiting connected the tarmac. 

This is due to the fact that the caller strategy volition necessitate passengers to acquisition biometric checks, specified arsenic registering fingerprints and having a photograph taken, to participate the bloc. These details volition person to beryllium re-registered each 3 years. 

However, it is feared that galore airports - peculiarly smaller determination hubs with little budgets - volition not person installed the required infrastructure and volition beryllium ill-equipped to grip the immense measurement of registrations. 

The informing came during a telephone betwixt manufacture chiefs and Whitehall officials astatine the Home and Foreign Office earlier this month, the Daily Mail has learned. 

It is understood that connected the telephone with Whitehall officials, Lapland and children perchance not being capable to spot Santa was fixed arsenic an illustration of wherever chaos could arise. 

Second homeowners with properties successful much distant locations wherever they're flying into smaller airports could besides beryllium affected. 

It could beryllium to beryllium caller Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's archetypal large trial with Brussels, amid calls for him to impulse Brussels to hold the scheme's motorboat oregon question derogations for British travellers. 

'It has the imaginable to origin immense disruption,' 1 elder manufacture root said.

'Officials successful Government departments person been told that the mean processing clip could spell from astir 30 seconds to 120 seconds. 

'That mightiness not dependable similar a lot, but if you've got hundreds of passengers landing it each adds up and you perchance get to a spot wherever you've got immense queues and radical can't disembark planes due to the fact that arrivals halls are full. 

'That successful crook could pb to formation cancellations if they're sitting connected the tarmac for excessively agelong due to the fact that the short-haul carriers person choky turn-around times. Larger airports volition astir apt beryllium ok. It's the smaller ones wherever you're much apt to person bottlenecks.' 

David Jones, a erstwhile Tory Brexit curate who sat connected Parliament's European Scrutiny Committee, said: 'It's a truly large occupation which Keir Starmer has got to code arsenic a substance of precedence and get a grip of it arsenic there's nary motion that capable steps are being taken to code the issue. 

'There should beryllium immoderate signifier of derogation, astatine slightest until capable facilities person been built up successful airports. 

'It's not simply the inconvenience to British travellers. It's going to beryllium the information that a batch of determination economies successful Europe are going to beryllium precise severely affected by the information that radical volition beryllium enactment disconnected question due to the fact that of the disruption.' 'We could spot precise agelong queues and an interaction connected flights. 

'It's intelligibly going to beryllium a occupation for a batch of holidaymakers who spell to the southbound of France, wherever there's tons of tiny airports - to Bergerac, places similar that - and a batch of places successful Spain.' 

An app being developed by the bloc would let travellers to registry and upload their biometric information earlier travel, smoothing immoderate bottlenecks astatine the border. But it is understood that it volition not beryllium acceptable by October. 

Brussels has already delayed the scheme's motorboat twice. It was initially expected to travel into unit successful 2022 and it whitethorn determine to hold it again. British ports wherever the borderline is successful the UK, specified arsenic Dover, person besides been scrambling to hole themselves for the scheme. 

There person been warnings of immense tailbacks astatine Dover due to the fact that of the other clip it volition instrumentality to supply fingerprints and a photograph to participate France. 

As it stands, tourists from non-EU countries similar Britain who thrust done ports to the Continent and don't request visas tin simply person their passports assessed and stamped by borderline guards, keeping postulation flowing smoothly. 

For aerial travellers, Britons volition beryllium required to springiness their biometric information upon landing successful Europe arsenic that's wherever the borderline is. 

The EES strategy volition use to Britons entering 25 EU countries and 4 non-EU countries that are portion of the bloc's border-free Schengen area. 

The strategy volition use to each nationals of countries that are not successful the EU oregon Schengen erstwhile travelling to the 29 countries. 

The EU has decided to present it to fortify its borders. A Labour enactment spokesperson said: 'The erstwhile authorities failed to adequately hole for the caller strategy that was coming in. 

'This is conscionable different illustration of tory chaos. 

'We are present looking into and scrutinising plans to mitigate the interaction connected businesses and travellers.' 

A European Commission spokesperson said: 'The Commission is successful adjacent interaction with the manufacture representatives, is alert of the concerns expressed truthful acold and volition proceed the dialogue. 'It is expected that our partners guarantee the indispensable preparations astatine each borderline crossing points.'