While airports have to process an increasing number of passengers, they experience ever more stringent immigration border control, induced by States’ regulations.

Moreover, a recent study from IATA demonstrates how border control is a bottleneck in the passenger flow process, resulting in increasing traveller dissatisfaction.

International hubs have to equip themselves with new passenger flow facilitation solutions by either selecting their own easier and smoother border control systems or being the prescriber of these solutions to governments.

The upcoming European Entry-Exit system promises to be a revolution for third-country nationals going through a European border and a consequence for European airports. Processing time will triple at border crossings in order to carry out all of the biometric and passenger data information processes.

All European Union Member States will have to deploy necessary solutions to comply with the regulation by 2022.

How can industry companies support international airports to manage this game-changer?