CAPA Centre for Aviation has named Vancouver Airport Authority's BorderXpress self-service border solution the 2015 Airport Innovation of the Year."Vancouver Airport Authority has been a pioneer with its development of BorderXpress Automated Passport Control Kiosks, which have reduced border waiting times by over 50 per cent," said Peter Harbison, CAPA Executive Chairman. "The judging panel selected Vancouver Airport Authority for being extremely innovative and taking the strategic initiative to develop a product that has significantly impacted the airport sector."YVR's BorderXpress kiosks automate the administrative portion of customs declaration, helping accelerate the process by up to 89 per cent, with no pre-registration or cost to passengers. "To achieve this prestigious honour from CAPA is both an honour and a tremendous endorsement of YVR's commitment to innovation, one of our core values," said Craig Richmond, President and CEO, Vancouver Airport Authority, accepting the award from Harbison. "Through technologies such as BorderXpress, we are taking an active role in improving the global travel experience, and we look forward to building on YVR's longstanding foundation of innovation."Instead of filling out a declaration card and taking travel documents to a border officer, passengers use the self-service kiosk to enter their information. This data is sent by encrypted transfer to the government agency, which returns a response in seconds. Receipt in hand, travellers then see a border officer for verification.First introduced at YVR's own U.S. pre-clearance facility in May 2013, BorderXpress has been embraced by airports, airlines and travellers around the world. To date, more than 700 kiosks have been deployed at 25 airports throughout North American and the Caribbean, collectively helping more than 50 million passengers safely and quickly clear the border.The solution's latest technology offers expanded visa processing, making it available to virtually every international traveller, and facial recognition technology capability.
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