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Changi Airport T4 First Commercial Flight in Coming Weeks

Changi Airport T4 First Commercial Flight in Coming Weeks
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Changi Airport will see the first commercial flights arrive at and leave Terminal 4 in the coming weeks, as part of the final phases of trials ahead of the new terminal's official opening, Changi Airport Group (CAG) said on Wednesday (Jun 21).

The trials will involve selected flights by airlines that will be operating from the terminal. These include Cathay Pacific, Cebu Pacific, Korean Air, Spring Airlines, Vietnam Airlines as well as the four AirAsia airlines. Flight trials were conducted recently with military chartered flights.

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The "vast and spacious" Terminal 4 gives visitors a clear view of the interior, says Changi Airport. Photo: Changi Airport's Facebook page.

 

In recent months, volunteers have played the role of passengers to test airport systems and processes. These include the suite of Fast and Seamless Travel (FAST) options, security screening, GST refund, baggage reclaim, ground transport, way-finding, passenger and baggage transfer and vehicular movements in the apron.

All gates are equipped with facial recognition technology. Passengers' identities are verified by matching their faces with their photos in passport. Altogether, more than 100 trials have been conducted, involving over 2,000 volunteer participants and 1,000 airport staff.

"Colourful and cushy chairs" in Terminal 4's departure transit area. Image: Changi Airport's Facebook page

 

Two airlines moving to T4, Cathay Pacific and AirAsia, have been providing FAST options to their passengers at Terminal 1, where they currently operate, since February this year. The response has been positive with more than half of the airlines’ passengers choosing the FAST option in the past three months.

At the automated boarding gate, passengers scan their boarding pass and authenticate their identity by taking a photo, according to CAG. Image: Loke Kok Fai/Channel News Asia
At the automated boarding gate, passengers scan their boarding pass and authenticate their identity by taking a photo, according to CAG. Image: Loke Kok Fai/Channel News Asia

"Our key focus is to implement all the operational readiness trials, and that has started since last year in October," said Ms Poh Li San, CAG's Vice President of its T4 Programme Management Office to Channel News Asia.

"To date we have completed more than 100 trials, involving more than 2,000 volunteers who came to participate, and more than 1,000 airport staff who did the trials with us."


Source : Channel News Asia | The Financial

Indah Gilang Pusparani

Indah is a researcher at Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah Kota Cirebon (Regional Development Planning and Research Agency of Cirebon Municipality). She covers More international relations, tourism, and startups in Southeast Asia region and beyond. Indah graduated from MSc Development Administration and Planning from University College London, United Kingdom in 2015. She finished bachelor degree from International Relations from University of Indonesia in 2014, with two exchange programs in Political Science at National University of Singapore and New Media in Journalism at Ball State University, USA. She was awarded Diplomacy Award at Harvard World Model United Nations and named as Indonesian Gifted Researcher by Australian National University. She is Researcher at Regional Planning Board in Cirebon, West Java. She previously worked as Editor in Bening Communication, the Commonwealth Parliament Association UK, and diplomacy consulting firm Best Delegate LLC in USA. Less
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