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Arriving at Faro Airport 7pm tonight so will post an update on if the eGates are open and how I get on
Took me 2 hours at OPO 2 weeks ago. None of their e-gates were active for any passports. Was travelling with those arriving at different times and the wait seemed to vary significantly/
Left via LIS earlier this week and could see the arrivals hall and it looked horrific.
Possibly they have installed new e-gates everywhere and none of them are active yet?
Took me 2 hours at OPO 2 weeks ago. None of their e-gates were active for any passports. Was travelling with those arriving at different times and the wait seemed to vary significantly/
Left via LIS earlier this week and could see the arrivals hall and it looked horrific.
Possibly they have installed new e-gates everywhere and none of them are active yet?
The e gates at OPO have been there for 4+ years and I have never seen them working in the many many times I have travelled through that airport. OH has seen them open/working once in that time.
The e-gates at Faro are rarely in use, even for Portuguese citizens.
Even if they are brought into use, they won’t make much difference to the processing time, as an Immigration Officer will still have to examine the passports of non EU Citizens to check compliance with the 90 day rule. This will not change until the Entry/Exit System (EES) goes live. This was originally scheduled for 2022, but keeps slipping. The latest estimate is October 2025.
The problem is not only queueing to get into the EU at Faro. You have to queue to leave as well. Queues to leave have also been around two hours at times, and people have been missing flights as a result.
At faro airport egates open in a queue to passport control and only a dozen in front of me.
Left Faro yesterday lunchtime and looked at the queues for customs arrival, the hall was packed and were stacked back onto the stairs so reckon it was a very long wait.
Back again in August so hope their plans work
Did it take long to clear passport control and security when you left?
I arrived on Thursday evening and the e-gates were working but only seemed to be accepting around a quarter of UK passports (mine is relatively new and was rejected). The subsequent queue for the booths was around 15 mins but would have been a good bit longer for those off the plane later
Landed at 19:00 and cleared in 6 minutes!
Lots of people queueing to be processed manually instead of using the e-gates 🤔
No queue to get my passport stamped once throughout the e-gates 😊
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