British FOUR-HOUR queue passport staff Portuguese airport strike

An unexpected strike called by passport workers at the Portuguese airport of Faro in the Algarve caused British travelers to spend up to four hours in queues.

A surprise strike by passport workers in Faro Airport in Portugal Algarve This morning, Friday March 17, British travelers were stuck in queues of up to four hours. As reported exclusively dailymail.espassengers ended up standing for hours in tightly packed lines waiting to go through passport control.

A flight with hundreds of Brits arrived at the airport at 10:55 this morning. They quickly realized that there was a serious shortage of border control personnel.

According to a passenger, 36-year-old Essex resident Sam Jones, it appeared there were only two officers on duty. He told the news outlet that he was “pretty sure” those two workers “had gone to lunch and left us all here.”

Video footage posted on social media showed long lines of disgruntled passengers waiting to exit the facility. At one point, paramedics had to be called to attend to a young child who passed out due to the temperature inside the building, the newspaper added.

He Resident in Portugal reported that a reader emailed them to say: “My daughter landed in Faro today at 10:05 am. She, along with hundreds of others, has still not passed passport control. Three and a half hours later, people are passing out. Six other flights landed behind her, she is afraid a riot is about to happen.”

According to the same outlet, another passenger informed them that he had spent three hours waiting in line and finally missed his flight. The length of the line meant it probably would have taken another 30 minutes to get to the end, he added.

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