Strong Eagle wrote:JR8 wrote:Going a little OT, but maybe of use to others with FIN IC's... I only just realised that with the passport and IC card I can go through the automated turnstiles at 'points of entry/exit' and don't have to queue.
Sure as hell beats standing in a half hour Q at Changi after a 12-15 journey in!
Have you actually done this? It was previously only for PR's. You had to apply for a separate card which fit in the reader. Now, the passport will work but I was unaware that it had been expanded beyond PR's.
Hi SE,
Last time I flew out of Changi in December, as usual my SGn wife went through the auto-turnstiles (over on the left), while I queued at the counters. Of course my wife went straight through where she bumped into an old friend who is an immigration duty officer. When I finally got through and joined them, the immigration officer remarked that I could have gone through the auto-turn-stiles too. As you might imagine that was quite a revelation... but it was from the horse's mouth as such.
When we came back into Changi arrivals, I went through the auto-turnstiles (over on the right in the arrivals hall). I know the main queues have LED boards over them saying 'Flight-crew, SGns, PR's and EP's, tourists' etc, but I don't actually recall if there was anything marked over the auto-turnstiles. From what I recall (Looooong journey, I was tired) I simply put my machine-readable passport page on a small glass scanner like screen, the turnstile opened. I got a couple of metres on, put my thumb on another scanner. Another turnstile opened and I was through... zero hassle, zero queueing!