Originally Posted by zhaobao

You would think in this day and age where airports are trying to automate passport control process, that IATA and airlines should have figured out how to capture visa details that are not the traditional visa stickers inside passports.

Does this mean that anyone travelling on a non HKSAR passport but have a HKID and with Hong Kong being the final destination would face the same problem at check in kiosks in general ? How does a check-in kiosk recognize a HKSAR passport anyway when the passport issuing country and citizenship code both read CHN ? The only thing I can think of is that a CHN passport holder can enter Hong Kong for 7 days without additional visa/entry requirements so the system gets circumvented. But then, a HKSAR passport holder can therefore check in for a flight to Mainland China at a kiosk since the machine reads the document as a CHN passport even though HKSAR passport is not a valid document to enter the rest of the country.... (This is becoming interesting.....)