15 Seconds to Finish Passport Control at Dubai Airports
- GDRFA officials in Dubai announced that Dubai Airports will soon have ‘Smart Tunnels’ to speed up movement of passengers
- The ‘Smart Tunnel’ technology was unveiled during the first day of the Gitex 37 technology show at World Trade Centre
- It is the first of its kind in the world – a biometric system that works on face recognition technology, wherein the passenger can finish entry procedure within 15 seconds
- GDRFA-Dubai will be co-ordinating with Emirates and Tesla for the Smart Tunnel project, as part of the government accelerators initiative
15 Seconds to Finish Passport Control at Dubai Airports
- The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) is a government agency that regulates the residency and travel of foreigners in the emirate of Dubai
- Dubai International Airport is the busiest airport in the world in terms of the volume of international passengers
- DXB the third busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic and the busiest airport in the world operating with only two runways
- In 2015, the GDRFA completed more than 65 million multi-category transactions and received 48 million passengers through Dubai Airports
- Dubai International Airport expects more than 100 million passengers by the end of 2020