The chief executive of a major European airport has issued a stark warning: the queues at EU border control this summer will be ‘not bearable’. Sources close to the operator confirm that staffing shortages and bureaucratic inertia are to blame. British travellers, already reeling from post-Brexit passport checks, face hours of delays.
The warning comes as airports across the continent scramble to hire border guards, but the money isn’t there. Documents uncovered by this paper show that EU member states have been dragging their feet on funding for recruitment. One insider put it bluntly: ‘They knew this was coming.
They chose to look the other way.’ The result? Families stuck in sweltering terminals, missed connections, and a tourism industry that’s about to take another hit.
The airport boss told us: ‘We cannot sustain this. The system is broken.’ No one in Brussels is listening.
But as the summer rush begins, the clock is ticking. And the bodies – in this case, the stranded passengers – will pile up.
