October 13th - Entry-exit system arrives – and I try it out
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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I'm in Prague, tackling the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the new Schengen area digital borders scheme.
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| 1:26.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast. It's Monday the 13th of October |
| 1:31.5 | and for the first time I think I'm recording this podcast next to a machine. It's a very tall machine |
| 1:37.5 | about eight feet high I would guess and it's an entry exit system kiosk. Yes, they are now actually in the wild being used by actual real people. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm at Terminal 1 at Prague Airport. I came out here actually on Saturday night. I bought it a midnight plane to Prague or or at least one which was due to arriving at midnight. |
| 2:03.9 | I hung around a bit. I went through border control. The machines weren't switched on and the |
| 2:10.1 | passport officer just said, no, we're not doing that yet. Returned today and I'm glad to see that |
| 2:15.9 | they are. So what I would like to do for you is to run through |
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