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'.

 

[Quickstatus]

No we can't shrink or move the duty free shops'.

Agree.
My super fund has BNE airport exposure. Thats a no go for me.

 

[AuSammy]

Is the contractor Accenture?

IME That would explain it, for sure.

 

[Jambo]

On our way home on SQ245 now and have been given the arrival card to fill out.

We arrived home from Santiago at the end of February this year. We were asked to do the digital version of the arrival card. It was very quick and easy to do and we were quietly confident of a quick exit. We were still required to put our passports in the kiosk and of course said YES we had been to South America. The screen flashed that we should go to passport control. We did. HE then filled out a PAPER arrival card and gave it to us with another form to hand to the border control guy. We then queued to see him and he then directed us to the red queue not the green one! We then explained yet again to the next border person, what we had been doing and where we went in South America and it was finally all systems go.