British passengers have been left fuming after reportedly missing their flights at Alicante airport due to painfully-long queues at both security and passport control.
Travellers took to social media to blast the airport for the ‘shambles’, with some claiming they were forced to stand in line for four hours.
Maxine Johnston wrote in a Benidorm Facebook forum: ‘Alicante airport this morning… missed our flight queuing for four hours, absolutely awful.’
She clarified that she and her family had arrived three hours early for their flight, only to be forced to wait four hours at passport control.
Fellow traveller Lisa Bamford added: ‘I just made it through and taking off now… phew (it was crazy).’
Bud Griffiths said: ‘It’s shambolic at the minute… All the machines went down at the same time… Some people were over two hours trying to get through.’
Ian Winter, posting on X, also claimed that the machines had broken.
‘Avoid Alicante Airport,’ he warned, ‘the passport control is broken, what a shambles!’
Cathy Anderson added: ‘Just arrived into Alicante airport, 10.15am, didn’t get out until 12.30. Complete shambles, every reader crashed, one man left to stamp and photograph 400 people.’
The Spanish Eye has contacted the Policia Nacional, who manages passport control, in Alicante for comment.
Andrea Chamberlian wrote: ‘It was a joke, queue horrendous to get to security, some of the gates to scan in weren’t working, then huge queues to get through passport control.
‘We only just made our gate despite arriving at the airport in plenty of time. Just very unorganised that’s all.’
