Passengers travelling between the UK and several European destinations are facing delays because of the European Union's Entry Exit System (EES), a new border management scheme that requires non-EU travellers to register biometric data, including fingerprints, when entering participating countries.
The information is then verified again when travellers leave, creating additional passport-control checks at airports. Since its rollout, nearly 80 million entries and exits have been recorded under the system, according to European authorities.
