Starting in 2024, officials say Singapore’s Changi Airport will introduce automated immigration clearance, which will allow passengers to depart the city-state without passports, using only biometric data.
Biometric technology, along with facial recognition software, is already in use to some extent in Changi Airport at automated lanes at immigration checkpoints.
But passports will still be required for many countries outside of Singapore that do not offer passport-free clearance, Teo stressed.
Departure hall at Terminal 3 of Singapore's Changi Airport.
Markus Mainka/imageBROKER/ShutterstockOften ranked the world’s best airport and also one of the busiest, Singapore’s Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines that fly to 400 cities in around 100 countries and territories worldwide.
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