Boarding passes will soon be a thing of the past. Last week, Air New Zealand customers were some of the first to experience biometric verification at the boarding gate after a successful trial at Los Angeles Airport. It’s all part of Air New Zealand’s plan to take the friction out of travel and to make the journey through the airport that much smoother. No sighting passports and no scanning boarding ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has released Australia’s next-generation passport, the ‘R Series’. The new passport is even more secure than the trusted ‘P Series’ passport, which has been issued to Australian travellers since 2014. In an Australian first, the R Series has a high security photo page made of layered plastic, making the passport harder to forge and less susceptible to damage. The visa pages show ...