Captain Dr. Sameh El-Hefny, Minister of Civil Aviation, stated that coordination is underway with the Ministry of Interior to activate electronic passport gates (E-Gates) at Cairo International Airport, to ease passengers' procedures and improve their experience on all flights in the coming phase.
He explained that, in a forward-looking step towards applying digital transformation, easing arrival and departure procedures and developing the travel system at Cairo International Airport, full coordination took place with the Ministry of Interior and the relevant authorities to begin implementing the decision to abolish the passport card from 27 January at the Seasonal Terminal, noting that some technical problems accompanied the implementation and were dealt with and appropriate solutions found.
El-Hefny added that a trial application of the system was carried out from 13 to 17 February at Terminal 3, with the application to be gradually expanded to cover the remaining passenger terminals and Egyptian airports.
This came during a meeting of the House of Representatives' Tourism and Aviation Committee yesterday, chaired by MP Sahar Talaat Moustafa, to discuss the ministry's strategy and future development plan, attended by MPs Amr Darwish and Hisham Hussein, deputy chairs of the committee, and MP Ahmed El-Ashmouny, the committee's secretary, along with committee members and leaders of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
El-Hefny reviewed the ministry's strategy in light of the state's plan to develop and support the aviation sector as one of the key pillars for achieving tourism and economic development targets, in implementation of the political leadership's directives to develop airport infrastructure and improve the level of services provided to travelers.
