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British passengers forced to stand in FOUR-HOUR queues after Portuguese passport workers call strike

Last updated: 2023/03/17 at 11:11 AM
Merry 1 week ago
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In scenes every tourist dreads when they go abroad, dozens of British tourists are stuck in four-hour queues at a hot and stuffy airport in Portugal
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EXCLUSIVE: British passengers forced to queue for FOUR HOURS, with children passing out after Portuguese passport workers declared an unplanned strike, ‘leaving just two staff… who both went to lunch’

  • Hundreds of tourists queued for four hours at Faro airport in Portugal
  • The situation is so dire that today a child passed out while waiting in line

By Rachael Bunyan and Amie-beth Steadman for Mailonline

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EXCLUSIVE: British passengers forced to queue for FOUR HOURS, with children passing out after Portuguese passport workers declared an unplanned strike, ‘leaving just two staff… who both went to lunch’Share or comment on this article:

published: 11:01 AM EDT, Mar 17, 2023 | Updated: 11:11 EDT, Mar 17, 2023

In scenes every tourist dreads when they go abroad, dozens of British tourists are stuck in four-hour queues at a hot and stuffy airport in Portugal.

Video shows hundreds of disgruntled holidaymakers crowded in front of passport barriers at Faro airport after airport staff announced an unplanned strike.

The situation at the airport is so dire that a child fainted while waiting in line to be treated by paramedics.

Sam Jones, 36, from Essex, tells MailOnline he was stuck in line for almost four hours – during which people lined the suspended escalators and stairs – after landing at Faro airport at 10.55am this morning.

Jones, a plumber, said the crowd became increasingly “agitated” after the striking passport workers left just two border control officers to deal with the influx of tourists. And Jones said he was “pretty sure” those two members of staff “just went to lunch and left us all here.”

In scenes every tourist dreads when they go abroad, dozens of British tourists are stuck in four-hour queues at a hot and stuffy airport in Portugal

Video shows hundreds of disgruntled holidaymakers huddled in front of passport barriers at Faro airport after airport staff announced an unplanned strike

Video shows hundreds of disgruntled holidaymakers huddled in front of passport barriers at Faro airport after airport staff announced an unplanned strike

The situation at the airport is so dire that a child fainted while waiting in line to be treated by paramedics.  Pictured: chaotic scenes at Faro airport

The situation at the airport is so dire that a child fainted while waiting in line to be treated by paramedics. Pictured: chaotic scenes at Faro airport

Jones, who flew from Stansted airport to Portugal with 12 of his friends for a weekend of golf, said that as soon as they landed at Faro airport, they encountered huge queues after passport workers declared an unplanned strike.

Horrifying footage shows chaos, with a crowd of appalled passengers standing in a stationary line. The footage rotates to show hundreds more tourists, with no space between them, queuing at the stairs and an escalator.

“People are screaming and getting agitated and it’s very hot,” Jones said, adding that he was told he could stay there for up to four hours and that he was separated from most of his friends.

“Only two people are open and we’re pretty sure they just went for lunch and left us all here.”

He added: ‘At this rate I don’t think I’ll make it to the golf course before I fly home on Monday. I can’t imagine we’re going anywhere anytime soon.’

Sam Jones, 36, from Essex, (pictured right with his friend) tells MailOnline he was stuck in the queue - which saw people standing in front of the suspended escalators and stairs - for almost four hours - after arriving at 10.55 hours at Faro airport this morning

Sam Jones, 36, from Essex, (pictured right with his friend) tells MailOnline he was stuck in the queue – which saw people standing in front of the suspended escalators and stairs – for almost four hours – after arriving at 10.55 hours at Faro airport this morning

In scenes every tourist dreads when they go abroad, dozens of British tourists are stuck in four-hour queues at a hot and stuffy airport in Portugal

In scenes every tourist dreads when they go abroad, dozens of British tourists are stuck in four-hour queues at a hot and stuffy airport in Portugal

Horrifying footage shows chaos, with a crowd of appalled passengers standing in a stationary line

Horrifying footage shows chaos, with a crowd of appalled passengers standing in a stationary line

The footage rotates to show hundreds more tourists, with no space between them, queuing at the stairs and an escalator

The footage rotates to show hundreds more tourists, with no space between them, queuing at the stairs and an escalator

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Horrifying footage shows a scene of chaos, with a crowd of horrified passengers standing in a standing line

Jones said staff began handing out passengers who had been standing for hours in the sweltering heat of the airport, adding that paramedics treated a child who passed out from the heat.

Last year there were chaotic scenes at passport control at Lisbon airport, with tourists queuing for hours.

Portuguese authorities blamed the chaos on the “exponential” increase in arrivals at airports in the country, as well as staff shortages as travel boomed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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