In Dubai, You Can Now Use Your Smartphone As Your Passport

There are many things you can do with your smartphone. You can text, call, surf the net, watch a movie, listen to music, play the games and many others.

But in Dubai, your smartphone can do better than this. It can be your passport. 

Just recently, the city launched a new service called Smart UAE Wallet, a smartphone application presently can be used in Terminal III but will be operational in all terminals after it will be linked with other airlines.

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This application can be download to passengers' smartphone and can be used in the smart gates of Dubai airport.

Instead of a passport, passengers will only scan their fingerprints to finish departure procedure without single delay.

This new project is expected to lessen departure clearance time in every passenger and also protect their documents and passport.

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In the initial phase, the UAE Wallet will contain the personal ID, passport details, and smart gate card data of the traveler.

According to report, the second phase of this is linking all the date of Emiratis and residents to the wallet so people don't need to show their documents when transacting in any government department.

All they need to do is to show the barcode on their phone to share his data and finish the transaction in seconds.

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Lt General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, deputy chairman of the police and public security in Dubai said, people can download the app from the Apple store and it is safe and has security checks.

He believes the application cannot be hacked or misused.

Sami Akilan of Emirates airline, said: “Passengers don’t need to carry their passport now, even the boarding pass because all the data registered in the system including the name, seat number and flight number is linked to the wallet. This will reduce the time and effort.

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To avail the UAE Wallet, follow the following steps:

• Download the UAE Wallet app from the Apple store.
• Register for the UAE Wallet any time before your travel date.
• After registering, present the required machine-readable barcodes generated within the UAE Wallet to pass through the smart gates.

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41 Airlines signed MOA with MIAA to abolish terminal fees

Forty-one airline companies operating in the Philippines have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), Wednesday, March 15, 2017, to totally abolish terminal fees paid by Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).

Speaking of the event is Transportation Secretary Art Tugade who relay the message of President Rodrigo Duterte to OFWs and also to airline companies.

Tugade said scrapping terminal fee is a big help to OFWs. Also, this will manifest President Duterte's love and concern to our modern day heroes.

Through Tugade, Duterte also gives thank to all airlines who give heed to the calling of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to stop incorporating terminal fees in airline tickets of OFWs.

It was last March 3, 2017, when DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III ordered Civil Aviation Authority in the Philippines (CAAP) and airline companies to stop the illegal collection of terminal fees and travel tax from OFWs.

Bello reiterated that OFWs should be exempted in paying travel tax and terminal fee pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1183, Republic Act 8042 or Migrant Workers Act and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995, as amended by Republic Act 10022.

(Watch: DZMM TeleRadyo: OFWs exempted from terminal fee starting April 30 - MIAA)

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 Here is the list of airlines that operates in the Philippines and has signed a memorandum of agreement together with MIAA to abolished terminal fees.

The implementation of the MOA will take place on April 30 this year which means that when an OFWs buy a ticket starting the said date, he or she will no longer be charged P500 terminal fee.

• Air Asia
• Air Asia Zest
• Air China
• Air Niugini
• All Nippon Airways
• Asiana Airline
• Cathay Pacific
• Cebu Pacific Air
• China Airline
• China Eastern Airline
• China Southern Airlines
• Delta Air
• Dragonair
• Emirates Airlines
• Ethiopian Airline
• Etihad
• Eva Air
• Gulf Air
• Japan Airlines
• Jeju Air
• Jet Star Asia
• Jin Air
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
• Kuwait Airlines
• Malaysian Airlines
• Mandarin Airlines
• Oman Air
• PAL Express
• Philippine Airlines
• Qantas Airlines Qatar Airways
• Royal Brunei
• Saudia Airlines
• Skyjet
• Singapore Airlines
• Silk Air
• Thai Airways
• Tiger Air
• Tiger Airways
• Turkish Airlines
• United Airlines
• Xiamen Airlines

Earlier the Emirates airline confirmed that they will comply laws in the Philippines concerning migrant workers.

It is confirmed by a spokesperson of the UAE-based aircraft that expatriates from the Philippines will no longer have to pay for extra aviation fees when they book flights with Emirates Airlines.

It means, Filipinos won't be obliged to pay the local travel tax and terminal fees. This is an equal to P1,620 or Dh118 per economy class passenger while airport fee can cost P750 pesos (Dh55).

To avail such exemptions, OFWs should present their Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) at the time of booking or prior to departure.

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The P550 terminal fee that is being integrated with the air ticket purchased by the OFWs will no longer be charged starting April 2017. This is a promise made by MIAA General Manager Ed Monreal to the public and to the OFWs as a response to the request of President Rodrigo Duterte to lift the burden of the OFWs shouldering the terminal fee whereas the law stated that they are exempted to pay such fees.That was according to the news dated November 29 last year. This year, that promise is about to be fulfilled in just a matter of days.
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The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is asking airline companies particularly the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to implement the exemption of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in paying travel tax and terminal fee.In his letter to Captain Jim C Sydiongco, director general of CAAP, DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, reiterated that OFWs should be exempted in paying travel tax and terminal fee pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1183, Republic Act 8042 or Migrant Workers Act and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995, as amended by Republic Act 10022.

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