The authorities at the Algarve’s Faro Airport have defended their management of passengers through passport control after hundreds of people were forced to wait up to three hours to have their documents screened last weekend. Passengers were left standing for hours in a hot, cramped and overcrowded concourse just ahead of passport control last Sunday evening with no explanation from airport staff about the reason for the delays. Angry travellers took to social media to express their anger at how they had been treated at the Portuguese airport. After reports of the problems emerged, the Irish Travel Agents Association expressed concern about the delays and called on airport authorities to address the issues at passport control. He said that decrease in staff had “led to a punctual reduction of processing capacity of the border control services”.

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2018 16:07 UTC