Big plans to make travelling by flight easier for South Africans
Everybody loves a line that moves faster!
With everything moving towards the digital, it only makes sense that the The Department of Home Affairs is upgrading this way.
They are introducing new technologies which will hopefully speed up travel and check-in times.
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The most recent pilot by the department is the e-gates at Cape Town International Airport.
They were primarily made to improve passenger processing times and experience whilst maintaining the security and integrity of the country’s borders.
There are also hopes to introduce a new passenger name record system.
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This system will be used to identify unknown threats based on passenger profiles, and the advanced passenger processing system will be used to identify known suspects (for example, those on stop and watchlists).
When at these e-gates at the Cape Town International Airport, South African passport holders travelling internationally can proceed to them for self-service immigration clearance where the following is performed:
- Biometric verification;
- Passport authenticity and validity checks;
- Checks against the BMCS risk engine; and
- The BMCS will record the movements of persons on the system after all system checks have been successfully performed.
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This a great time-saving system at Immigration for low-risk travellers and boarding times will be managed effectively.
Shoutout to the department for being progressive!
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