Flew in and out of Venice Marco Polo last week.
On arrival, photo and fingerprints were taken at the e-gates; there was quite a queue though (of about 20 minutes), no doubt reflecting that several flights from the UK, US and Canada had all landed at about the same time. But more or less tolerable.
Leaving was more of a farce. The main bank of EES machines are located before security, and have the facility to take a photo and fingerprints, and once it has checked a passport and attempted to identify a passenger, gives directions as to whether one should go on to use the e-gates or go to manual passport control. Seemingly the machine didn't recognise me (I suspect the camera position, which is fixed, unlike that at the egates, is unhelpful for people of less or more than average height), so I was sent to the manual passport control.....which involved about a 45-minute queue (numerous departures to the US, UK, Canada and also China at around this time), with staff regularly checking for passengers whose planes were about to board, but who were trapped in these queues. The queues at the egates didn't seem much shorter, though.
It was rather unpleasant.
No passports being stamped though.
