The Ministry of the Interior designed plans to greatly strengthen police forces airports Spaniards looking at summer to deal with the expected boom in air traffic after several conflicts over the holidays and in recent years over complaints with Spanish airlines. issues with queues and waiting times at check-ins passports in some centers
The National Police will allocate 311 additional agents As El Periódico de España of the Prensa Ibérica group confirms, the management of passport control, official sources from the department, are closed to avoid long queues at six airports with the highest volume of international flight traffic in high season.
The Commissioner-General for Immigration and Borders and the different air border stations at the local level conducted special operations plans to strengthen the number of police officers performing security duties. border control with exceptional services at the largest airports. As highlighted by the interior, National Police personnel at airports are sized for the flow of passengers from outside the Schengen area, in coordination with Aena, the manager of the Spanish airport network.
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According to interior data, 143 additional agencies will be assigned to Madrid-Barajas airport; 62 to Palma de Mallorca; 49 extra agents in Alicante; 40 in Valencia; 10 in Malaga; and reinforcements will be 7 agents at Lanzarote airport. In addition to this retrofit, which will be implemented permanently at these six airports over the summer, the National Police will also increase the exceptional service of staff on peak days at the same airports as well as Barcelona. El Prat airport.
In recent years, during the peak holiday traffic -especially in summer and Easter – airlines reported that they had a queue problem at passport controls. The Association of Airlines (ALA), which brings together 60 airlines operating in the Spanish market,Due to the absence of police at some airports carry out the control of non-community passengers. Criticisms that the Ministry of Interior and Aena rejected and therefore insisted on when the biggest complaints were from airlines not receiving passenger requests.