Palma raises border police headcount ~52%, average EES wait eases to 30 minutes
Palma de Mallorca has cut its average EES wait to about 30 minutes after a large increase in border police staffing, though peaks still reach 70 minutes.
EES news
What changed at the EU Entry/Exit System border this week — Commission decisions, airline warnings, and airports where the queues got better or worse. Each update links to the airport pages it names.
Rome Fiumicino says EES tripled UK border times; Ryanair names Athens a blackspot
Fiumicino reports average UK-traveller border time has gone from 7 to 20 minutes, and Ryanair adds Athens to its list of airports still seeing 2-3 hour EES queues.
Ryanair expands its EES hotspot warning from 7 airports to 15
Ryanair adds Lisbon, Madrid, Lanzarote, Milan Malpensa, Verona, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt Hahn and Budapest to its EES hotspot list, and Copenhagen's documented peak is revised up to 3 hours.
Commission rejects a full EES suspension for summer 2026
Brussels calls a full suspension "not possible" and "not needed" after airlines and airports warn of 4-5 hour queues; nine countries ask to extend the flexibility mechanism past 6 September.
See the live wait times for what is happening right now, or the worst airports for EES delays for documented peaks.