Can Europe avoid a summer of holiday flight and cross-Channel travel chaos?

Holiday flights to Europe have kept growing
despite long airport queues.Photograph:
 Carl Court/Getty Images
(Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Holidaymakers have faced numerous stresses in recent years when planning and budgeting for the sacred summer holiday. Holiday flights to Europe have kept growing despite a pandemic, a cost of living crisis and long airport queues, but summer 2026 threatens to bring fresh anxieties.

Legacies of Brexit mean longer border checks for Britons and most non-EU nationals to get into much of Europe, and the US-Israel war on Iran has prompted fears that airlines may not have enough fuel for every scheduled flight.

Confusion still surrounds the exact status of the EU’s new entry-exit system (EES), which in theory should now be taking biometric data – fingerprints and photographs – from every applicable visitor, after the 10 April deadline for full implementation passed.

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By Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent