Border SmartGate
The Herald reports:
Transtasman travel has become a lot easier with the introduction of the SmartGate system at Auckland Airport.
Prime Minister John Key became the first person to sign in with the new technology yesterday.
Customs NZ deputy controller John Secker said the opening of Auckland’s SmartGate was the single biggest development in border processing in 20 years.
Passengers with Australian or New Zealand electronic passports can now fast-track into the country by using a new automated system.
Travellers scan their passports at a kiosk, answer a few questions using a touch screen and are issued with a ticket.
At the gate, a camera scans the passenger’s face using biometric facial recognition technology.
If there is a match with the image stored in the passport, the gate opens.
They have a similar system in Dubai, and I was very impressed with it. You can do pretty much everything yourself – even putting your bags through the x-ray, scanning the passport.
Great to see this move to make trans-tasman travel more hassle-free. Now if only someone could fix Wellington Airport so the security scans are done before the Koru Club, not afterwards. Auckland Airport is vastly more efficient with one security point for the airport.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Now, if only something could be done about all of the butch and over-agressive women in security.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Assertive women are a sign of a progressive society. Do regressive males feel threatened by that?
December 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Why do women need to be “assertive”, and what do they have to be “assertive” about??
Just another leftist academic driven long march style attack on the family unit, the greatest impediment to the socialist’s global ambitions.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:21 am
You must be seeing the wrong ones Red. Customs has some hotties.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
People should be able to board planes without needing to deal with the bad manners and attitudes of the dregs of the left’s failed social experiments.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:28 am
And just let all the illegal immigrants, drug couriers and terrorists through? Great idea.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Of course it doesn’t help the situation when most NZ males when confronted with these fucked in the head indoctrinated bitches behave like simpering spineless geldings.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Yea its a weird set up in Wellington.
Redbaiter – you have a problem with gay chicks? or just angry looking/acting females?
December 4th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I simply have a problem with bad manners from civil servants.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:53 am
As a matter of fact I think the failure of the average NZ male to resist the feminists is a throwback to their English roots where domination by women is something that a lot of European males find sexually exciting.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am
By my count I have entered and exited New Zealand 21 times so far this year and I haven’t run into any of those people Red.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Well Greg, from reading your contributions to Kiwiblog over time, I doubt you have the upbringing to notice bad manners, or that you have the intellectual resources to recognise when you are being subjugated by feminist thugs in uniforms, or the means to notice anything about wimmen other than the size of their tits.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
You’re probably right; at least I got a chuckle out of your last post. I like a nice pair of legs too.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
This is great news. When Shonkey and idiot boy get to sign our futures away we won’t have to wait long to catch the plane out of servitude.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Redbaiter 9:53 am,
I think you may be on to something there, Red.
I know when I’ve stood up to the aforementioned they appear like stunned mullets and don’t know how to react.
I think many ‘men’ (I use the term loosely) conform to the metrosexual male persona – soft pink hands, cologne, optional eyeliner, and a general subservience to the female of the species.
God help us all.
My advice – grow a pair!
December 4th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
That statement is a bit of a laugh, no matter which way you interpret it.