Originally Posted by
majik
Canadian and US passport holders are exempt but how are airlines going to deal with Permanent Residents?
Are airlines going to physically inspect PR cards on check-in? Will they swipe them? I know PR cards are machine readable but are completely different to passports. Surely airlines haven't invested in new PR card swiping tech? Will agents have to manually enter PR card details?
Umm, in exactly the same way that they deal with PRs now. Your PR card is your visa to Canada. When you check in for a flight to Canada, airlines are supposed to make sure that you have a visa, or that you don't need one.
Now that everyone except Canadians and Americans will need some sort of "visa", a PR with a British passport will undergo the same checks by airline agents that a PR with an Indian passport has been experiencing for years.
There is no definitive link between a Permanent Residents passport and their PR card. A Permanent Residents passport could change during their PR card validity period voiding any semblance of a link that would have been established when applying for the PR card.
