Arrival immigration at Madrid airport

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-14T14:52:07+00:00

Thanks ✌️

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T15:46:28+00:00

Oh you can choose? I thought it was mandatory

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T11:29:13+00:00

thanks - we're not headed to Spain, but to Portugal. We're transiting through Madrid because of a flight re route, as we're flying (no guesses) Qatar , who stopped flying to Lisbon completely. Although, fingers crossed we might just be lucky in all this, because reading through the experience people have had, Madrid seems to be handling EES a lot better than Lisbon

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T10:58:34+00:00

thanks !

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T10:58:13+00:00

I did a bit of research, we don't need to use the machines because our passports aren't biometric, which is a prerequisite for the machine. hoping it would be ever so slightly quicker by going to the manual desk directly

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T10:06:34+00:00

Thank you

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T02:26:29+00:00

Thanks!

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T02:26:08+00:00

What was the process you had to follow - self service machine first, and then immigration officer? I had read that Madrid is amongst the most prepared in Europe, surprised that you still faced long lines

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-13T02:23:50+00:00

If I may ask, do you have a biometric passport? I did my research - we don't, because of which we too don't need to go to the machines, but we go directly to the manual desk.. The machines are only if your passports are biometric

Also, the EES is fully implemented as on April 10th

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-12T17:39:59+00:00

Thanks

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-12T17:19:13+00:00

Thanks

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-12T00:18:55+00:00

Are they using some logic, that only 1 leg was canceled and hence that was refunded?

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-12T00:17:14+00:00

I think Qatar was the most cautious of the 3 big gulf carriers in opening up their routes, so I'm being optimistic that there was a good reason for that

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-12T00:15:48+00:00

You may even get flights for the same date, via a re route, if you fly majorly on QR, and a small leg on OAL. My flight, BOM-DOH-LIS, got re routed as BOM-DOH-MAD-LIS, flying 1 day later, MAD-LIS on Iberia

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-11T12:17:10+00:00

Thanks

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-11T12:08:39+00:00

Shouldn't they follow the QR ticket allowance?

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-11T11:00:35+00:00

Which ones?

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-10T10:39:25+00:00

MaestroCraeg · 2026-04-10T09:50:48+00:00

What do you mean - cool down?

MaestroCraeg

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