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

2APlease said:
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'.
 
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drron said:
On our way home on SQ245 now and have been given the arrival card to fill out.
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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.
 
Jambo said:
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.
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Strange. We arrived back from Santiago last week...we did the paper arrivals form, ticked yes to Sth America and went through the egates.

Never given an option to fill the digital form
 
According to a recent story - Melbourne is trialing it now on SELECTED QF flights from NZ!!

Melbourne is joining Sydney and Brisbane in ditching the orange incoming passenger card in favour of a modern digital solution known as the Australia Travel Declaration (ATD).

But before you get too excited, know that the ATD is initially available only for travellers arriving on Qantas flights QF154 from Auckland and QF178 from Queenstown.

 
MEL is definitely in trial mode. Only 1 guy had the software set up for it. Also my SIN - MEL crew was not briefed that this is happening as they were very surprised with a lot of people declining the arrival card.
 
I’m flying back from Vanuatu today and my wife and I can do the electronic version on the Qantas app but not the kids. Need to be 18 and over. So the kids still need hard copies.
 
TheRealTMA said:
It’s absurd there isn’t electronic form for families.
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Bizarre huh?

We do so,e things really really well in Australia - like our medical system.

Yet we seem insistent to reinvent the wheel on others like Myki, MyGov, passenger rights, inbound passenger processing, etc. Wasting millions - in some cases hundreds of millions - of dollars and as many hours.

I can clear Indonesian immigration faster than I can my own.
 
Flyerwin said:
Hong Kong and Singapore it’s all face recognition. I literally walk straight out of the airport.
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Supposedly WSI will be able to support ot too technologically. Whether ABF uses it is another story.
 
transpactraveller said:
I'd be surprised if that ever happens in Australia with our biosecurity requirements to inspect all incoming passengers
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Why not? Registered passport - you walk through gate one with a face scan. You still need to go past the customs officer afterwards with the QR code.
 

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