Fights break out in Spanish passport control as tensions boil over for passengers stuck in hour-long queues
A Spanish airport, hundreds of passengers, frustrated travelers began to fight for hours between the shortage of personnel under passport -controller personnel.
Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Dabarajas airport images, while waiting to reach the boarding doors, while waiting for large crowds waiting for the passport at hand show.
Madrid airport Terminal 4 passport control points at long waiting and excessive crowded, passengers feared that they could miss their flights caused a nervous atmosphere.
In some cases, civilian guards reportedly had to intervene to include the tension between some passengers.
Mailonline, hundreds of travelers due to missing their flights.
Resources to the local media, ‘half of the passport control poles are empty and this morning to overcome security on average 60 minutes, he said.
The first reports suggested that the blockage might have been caused by a collapse in passport scanning systems, but the airport operator Aena rejected it and said the deterioration was due to lack of police staff.
“We cooperate with the police to control the flow of people in Aena and to prevent it from becoming a blockage,” the operator said in a statement to Spanish news outlet 20minutos.
A Spanish airport landed today.
Resources to the local media, ‘half of the passport control poles are empty and this morning to overcome security on average 60 minutes, he said. In Picture: Adolfo Suarez Madrid Dam is the inside of a terminal in the Airport
The operator also insisted that delays, as seen today, are common in summer height.
El Pais reported that passengers traveling in the rest of the Spain and the European Union were not affected by delays.
Mailonline approached Aena for a comment.
Large blockages have also occurred on the platforms of the airport underground service system.
Disappointed passengers, writing an X user to complain about the delays at the airport took to social media: ‘4 hours before our flight came to Madrid Airport and made a croissant and coffee in some time. We are on our flight and now we are still waiting for 70 other passengers passing through security. ‘
‘I’ve been working in aviation for more than20 years and I have never seen anything like this’ he wrote.
Third, he said: ‘This is embarrassing.’
Others accused Oscar Puente, the Socialist Transport Minister of Spain for a lack of predictions at the beginning of the summer season.
The severe delays at the Başkent airport, more than 300 passengers from Madrid to Malaga on the high -speed railway, comes only two days after the 14 -hour stranded on the train as a result of power outage.
The affected described that he suffered from panic attacks while waiting in the suffocating heat.
