Aust int travel incoming to Aust

[AustraliaPoochie]

Oh, by the way, welcome onboard AFF Airlines, Blue7.

 

[Mwenenzi]

Pure speculation on my part, its likely the incoming passenger card will be replaced with the new kiosk and receipt along with the reworked digital passenger declaration.

The new system might not even require passports to be scanned, as is the case with the new Global Entry kiosks in the US where they compare photos with expected passengers.

NZ has replaced the incoming passenger card with an on line application linked to passport (customs swipe). The old card is still available for those who do not do online.

The AU immigration system of card from a kiosk to then put that into another kiosk/machine is a system from decades ago.
Some other countries have 1 kiosk/machine/photo that does it all.

 

[cwd]

I assume the paper with your photo printed on it is to allow the people at customs to 1) verify it's the person it's meant to be 2) see if they've been tagged for inspection. It does mean you don't have to hand over your passport at the same time, as they should be able to use the printed photo to check you haven't swapped with someone. They could of course just use the same facial recognition again for this which would massively speed up the process if the arrival cards could be done online ahead of time.

Used the system at the beginning of the year at OOL, and I think they only had 2 gates. MEL seems to have plenty of gates now. The kiosks are still super slow and a pretty big bottleneck (not as much as Australian airport baggage handling though).

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

The AU immigration system of card from a kiosk to then put that into another kiosk/machine is a system from decades ago.
Some other countries have 1 kiosk/machine/photo that does it all.

The machine that gives you that cardboardy printout, is no longer being used.
Its now a different machine you go to first, after deplaning.
It does not issue you that cardboardy card anymore, when you slip your passport into the reader and answer those questions, it issues this receipt with your photo on it, from a photo camera that meets your passport photo, when you have slipped your passport in, and answer those questions.
So, no more cardboardy printout, means no more slipping that into the 2nd camera, you slip your passport into that first gate, and a 2nd gate, and then hand in your mugshot print out and IPC to the officer before you enter the public area.
They changed the first sort of waist high kiosk, to one thats larger, and wider, and more like shoulder height, with a camera in there already, to take your photo, at the very stage of immi incoming step procedure.
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Also, it does depend on the number of pax.
MEL has a lot of pax on a lot of flights, while OOL and ADL, and PER have less int pax.
BNE and SYD too, I would say, will have a "bottleneck" issue, as they all 3 have a lot of arrivals esp in the am peak when curfew ends.
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Who knows too, maybe when we enter our passport and answer those questions, already then, our actual photo being taken is already being matched with the photo stored in the chip in the passport, and once that filmsy photo is printed, part of the data matching has been done, and completed.
Mind you, this is all my guesswork and supposition, and I am not in the "team", as in ops/the machine set set up.
Too much of a yapper.