Cathy Adams
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271 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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But then if you extrapolate that by, say, you know, the entire capacity of, say, I don't know, a Boeing 777, yeah, you're looking at huge numbers and, you know, huge delays.
So basically what it comes down to is such an unsexy word, but it's kind of airport flow.
And he's talking about that when you arrive, you know, when anybody arrives at a European border, it's how they're managed through the airport and where they land, you know, where they can congregate, how they're sort of signaled into different queues.
And it's the fact that I think these kiosks that people have to visit is going to do their biometrics.
Sometimes they're in the wrong place in the airport.
They're not clear.
There isn't enough signage.
It's a really basic thing, but it's these kind of operational realities that actually do really make or break someone's holiday, given that when people are leaving as well, they also then have to go back.
back through this very same process, have their biometric information taken, then visit a border guard.
Often people don't know where to go and will just queue up in the kind of non-Schengen queue and then have this all done at a border booth.
So, yeah, it's the entire operation around it.
I mean, bearing in mind that the countries in the EU, so it's 25 countries in the EU and then four countries in Schengen as well,
All of these countries were operating very different sort of, you know, border checks and IT software as well.
And then to expect them to kind of all come together with just one central system, this is where the problem has lied.
So I spoke to lots of airlines, airlines operating in and around the UK last week, including Ryanair, which is obviously Europe's biggest airline.
And they're telling me that it's Amsterdam, it's Malaga, Porto, Lisbon, Menorca, in the Canaries, Lanzarote, Tenerife South, but then further north.
And east, we've got Malta, Rome.
I was in Rome on Friday and it is not a pretty picture.
I was leaving and I was in this kind of giant switchback queue for sort of an hour.
And it's very hot in these airports as well.
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