Transit through Changi - Tips, Tricks and Advice

[AustraliaPoochie]

Just my last waffly, all int visitors to Singapore can now use their egate, without prior arrangements.
Just like our Aus smartgate.
Slip passport into chest/shoulder high reader, it takes a photo by light, and compares to passport, and thats it, gate opens, for incoming, same for outgoing.
They will want to view your BP on outgoing, as you enter the secure zone, so might have to first pop up to the counter, then show BP to first security officer, he/she lets you through, you then go to outgoing ICA, process passport, then go to gate, have HLO xrayed, and that is it.
Before, you need to be a regular visitor to Singapore to use their egate, but now everyone can use it.

 

[Pele]

Just my last waffly, all int visitors to Singapore can now use their egate, without prior arrangements.
Just like our Aus smartgate.
Slip passport into chest/shoulder high reader, it takes a photo by light, and compares to passport, and thats it, gate opens, for incoming, same for outgoing.
They will want to view your BP on outgoing, as you enter the secure zone, so might have to first pop up to the counter, then show BP to first security officer, he/she lets you through, you then go to outgoing ICA, process passport, then go to gate, have HLO xrayed, and that is it.
Before, you need to be a regular visitor to Singapore to use their egate, but now everyone can use it.

Singapore's is better than Australia's smartgate because they don't require that stupid ticket that Australia does. I get angry just thinking about that ticket.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Yep, I prefer the old way with the small chit of cardboard than the new fangled system with that yellow flimsy slip of paper.
Even NZ is better, straight from the plane, to the auto camera system, without having to go to that first shoulder height machine.
Faster too.
If a lot of planes come in at the same time, into any of the Aus int terminals, lots of people will be held up lining up for those first step machines.

 

[elanshin]

Singapore's is better than Australia's smartgate because they don't require that stupid ticket that Australia does. I get angry just thinking about that ticket.

I believe the new gates are completely capable of biometrics only but that's in a later phase of the transition. I believe there was talks that it'll go to no passports needed either. Supposedly WSI is to use this system so we can't be that far off it.

 

[clifford]

I believe the new gates are completely capable of biometrics only but that's in a later phase of the transition. I believe there was talks that it'll go to no passports needed either. Supposedly WSI is to use this system so we can't be that far off it.

But tell us, what's the rationale for the flimsy bits of paper. Haven't seen the like of it anywhere else.

 

[jpp42]

But tell us, what's the rationale for the flimsy bits of paper. Haven't seen the like of it anywhere else.

Are there circumstances in which it won't spit out that paper and tells you to go to a manned entry desk instead? Like, what happens if you answer that you've been in Africa (not ZA) or PNG in the last 6 days or whatever? I could see the argument that the slip of paper indicates you've passed initial screening and therefore won't be turned away from the actual gate. (Though there is already a procedure for handling people who can't get through the gate, which works adequately enough, so I agree overall the two-step process in Australia is ridiculous.)