Our machines aren't just for Aus Passports now. Also im pretty sure it's doing it as additional security checks on the actual page.Plus why are we still scanning the machine readable page. Every AU passport would be chipped these days (ePassport came in from late 2005)
The international standards for (e)passports, require that they use at least Basic Access Control (BAC) or higher level of security. The relevant part of that to scanning the MRZ to use Smartgate is that the check digits contained in the MRZ are required and be correct to be able to read and extract the data on the chip.Plus why are we still scanning the machine readable page. Every AU passport would be chipped these days (ePassport came in from late 2005)
Machine readable zone.. or those weird two lines at the bottom of the picture page.Meaning & significance, please?
(And just wandering off on another tangent, I wonder what the emergency evacuation procedure would be in that immigration hall in case of, say, fire alarm- there must be hundreds of people jammed in there at peaks. How would it go if there was smoke, or the smell of smoke?)
Something for me to look forward to next week @RooFlyerBring on WSI!
Just gone through SYD international arrivals, immigration etc. Ticket machines 15 deep - kiosks same. Non Oz queues very very long.
Bus Int—>Dom stuck half way due to a queue of planes waiting to cross in front, in turn delayed by a plane with a problem departing dom gate.
May I ask, how long did it take from disembarking to get over to Domestic?
Have entered AU at BNE & MEL in recent times via the new 2 kiosks and then submitted the written arrival card at the final customs/bio security manual check before getting to land side. At BNE these kiosks (printers) were a few steps from each other.As already alluded to, it'd be sensible to turn directly to online arrival cards. Why we'd need our convoluted paper-based process with four steps is a mystery (arrival card > ticket > e-gate > quarantine check where the card & ticket are returned back to the authorities present).
Is the ABTC line reliably fast during morning rush?SYD international arrivals is one spot where an APEC card is incredibly beneficial
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Is the ABTC line reliably fast during morning rush?
You could be gazumped by another crew as well. They are entitled to priority over everyone in the crew lane, even if its a 'shared' lane. Some crews feel like a douche as well (fell its a bad look for the company) pushing in. Many use Smartgate too, which reduces the odds of gazumping.At SYD, yes. It's also the crew lane though. You're always going to be ahead of the crew from your flight, but could be stuck behind the crew of another flight. It's only happened to me once and it wasn't too bad. Otherwise there is generally no line.
You could be gazumped by another crew as well. They are entitled to priority over everyone in the crew lane, even if its a 'shared' lane. Some crews feel like a douche as well (fell its a bad look for the company) pushing in. Many use Smartgate too, which reduces the odds of gazumping.
Staff instruction when I worked at SYD, an ICAO standard/ recommended practice apparently. Annex 9 on facilitation perhaps. Related to crew being on minimum rest, not being delayed etc.First I hear of that. Nothing signposted to say crew can push past others. Where did you get that from?
I did this last trip and it bit me in the bumThe secret is to ignore the staff that's asking if you filled your card out and get right to the immigration gates where there's a bunch more machines. But everyone being good citizens line up before then and thus those machines are almost always empty
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