Is the Australian Landing Card Still Necessary in the Written Form?

[2APlease]

Touche!

 

[Warragul]

So let me assess this rollout based on 50 years of IT experience. It may take 4 weeks to shake down the input for design errors around areas like problematic names but a) theOz passport system should have 99+% of the needed rules and b) issues could be avoided by requiring seat number in the input as the pax name would match their passport.
Next generate a QR code that displays OK or the fields with a No answer. Basic IT.
Display result to customs officer.
Why is this taking over 12 months? Is the contractor Accenture?
Someone is ripping the taxpayer off.
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It maybe there is a plan/desire to integrate the information collected in the non trial version into existing systems. Having worked with those systems, that can be a minefield.

There is a non IT side of this, when I used this in Brisbane the queueing/ assessment area took up more space than the paper based red/green channel system. Taking space away from the baggage retrieval area necessitates liaison/permission from the airport owner - ABF do not pay rent on the space for passenger processing so any moving of the boundaries can be a touchy subject.

At some ports there had been suggestiosn of extending smartgate kiosks further back towards the aerobridges. - 'No we can't shrink or move the duty free shops'.