{"id":8899,"date":"2023-09-20T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/this-world-class-airport-will-soon-go-passport-free\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T13:46:32","slug":"this-world-class-airport-will-soon-go-passport-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/this-world-class-airport-will-soon-go-passport-free\/","title":{"rendered":"This world-class airport will soon go passport-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Traveling through one of the world\u2019s best airports is set to get even smoother next year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Starting in 2024, officials say Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport will introduce automated immigration clearance, which will allow passengers to depart the city-state without passports, using only biometric data.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cSingapore will be one of the first few countries in the world to introduce automated, passport-free immigration clearance,\u201d Communications Minister Josephine Teo announced during a parliament session on Monday, during which several changes to the country\u2019s Immigration Act were passed.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Biometric technology, along with facial recognition software, is already in use to some extent in Changi Airport at automated lanes at immigration checkpoints.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      But the upcoming changes will \u201creduce the need for passengers to repeatedly present their travel documents at touch points and allow for more seamless and convenient processing,\u201d Teo said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Biometrics will be used to create a \u201csingle token of authentication\u201d that will be employed at various automated touch points \u2013 from bag drops to immigration clearance and boarding \u2013 eliminating the need for physical travel documents like boarding passes and passports.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      But passports will still be required for many countries outside of Singapore that do not offer passport-free clearance, Teo stressed.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Often ranked the world\u2019s best airport and also one of the busiest, Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines that fly to 400 cities in around 100 countries and territories worldwide.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      It handled 5.12 million passenger movements in June, crossing the 5 million mark for the first time since January 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic struck.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The airport is a destination in itself and currently has four terminals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      It is set to expand, adding a fifth to cater to the growing number of travelers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Changi Airport is projecting a return to pre-pandemic levels of passenger and air traffic and expressed hopes that the upcoming biometric system will help make passenger flows smoother.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cOur immigration systems must be able to manage this high and growing volume of travelers efficiently and provide a positive clearance experience, while ensuring our security,\u201d Teo said.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content_without-image related-content_without-image--article\">\n<p class=\"related-content_without-image__headline\">            <span class=\"related-content_without-image__headline-text\">Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport is going to get a lot bigger as plans for T5 take shape<\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    The future of travel?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Seamless travel has been catching on around the world and biometric identification could soon be the future of travel, observers say.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In 2018, Dubai International Airport introduced biometric \u201cSmart Gates\u201d tunnels, which use facial recognition to verify travelers\u2019 identities in as little as five seconds. Passengers are also allowed to use their fingerprints or face scans for authentication, rather than rely on physical passports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Elsewhere in the world, facial recognition technology is already in use to some extent at Hong Kong International Airport, Tokyo Narita, Tokyo Haneda, Indira Gandhi International in Delhi, London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle, among other airports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Digital IDs, compliant with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards in Aruba, allow travelers to travel using secure digital versions of their passports on mobile phones.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In the US, major airlines like American Airlines, United and Delta have been experimenting with biometric check-in, bag drops and boarding gates at select airports for the last couple of years.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling through one of the world\u2019s best airports is set to get even smoother next year. Starting in 2024, officials say Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport will introduce automated immigration clearance, which will allow passengers to depart the city-state without passports, using only biometric data. \u201cSingapore will be one of the first few countries in the world <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}