The “One ID” scanning system started trials on Wednesday at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, with the system expected to allow people to enter and leave customs with no close contact with airport security or infrastructure.
Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) president Jerry Dan (但昭璧) said that the One ID project, promoted by the International Air Transport Association as early as 2019, seeks to facilitate boarding using biometric scanning.
TIAC has been testing the system for more than half a year, and it went through and passed an internal stress test last month, Dan said.
Photo: CNA
The system has been in closed trials since Dec. 1, with passengers from two flights per day asked to pass through customs using it, or about 700 people daily, TIAC said.
Use of the One ID system is entirely voluntary and those who wish to utilize it should use check-in kiosks Nos. 9, 10, 17 or 19 to key in their information, the company said.
All personal information entered into the system is transmitted using a closed virtual private network and the information is deleted once the flight departs, it said.
However, this means that passengers have to submit their information every time they pass through customs, it said
TIAC encouraged people aged 20 or older to use the new system, but said that passengers with additional needs, such as wheelchair services or those traveling with infants, would be asked to use ordinary check-in channels.
A passenger surnamed Lee (李) on her way to Hong Kong on Wednesday said that she found the experience “unique.”
The system was convenient, as she only had to scan her face, removing the need to shuffle her passport or other documents, she said.
If the system is implemented, she would most certainly use the system the next time she leaves the country, Lee said.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications said that the system in March went through separate trials at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport).
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is to launch a new program to encourage international students to stay in Taiwan and explore job opportunities here after graduation, Deputy Minister of Education Yeh Ping-cheng (葉丙成) said on Friday. The government would provide full scholarships for international students to further their studies for two years in Taiwan, so those who want to pursue a master’s degree can consider applying for the program, he said. The fields included are science, technology, engineering, mathematics, semiconductors and finance, Yeh added. The program, called “Intense 2+2,” would also assist international students who completed the two years of further studies in
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amendment to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holidays (紀念日及節日實施辦法), which the parties jointly proposed, in its third and final reading today. The legislature passed the bill to amend the act, which is currently enforced administratively, raising it to the legal level. The new legislation recognizes Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28, the
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
RSS