明年起可刷身份證登機 將減少五千個值機櫃臺

Chinese air passengers will officially be able to board planes using only their ID cards from the start of 2017.

自2017年起，國內航空乘客將正式可以僅憑身份證登機。

The move was announced by Zhang Baojian, the vice president of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in North Asia, also its head delegate in China.

這一舉措是由國際航協北亞區副總裁、中國首席代表張保建於近日宣佈的。

The new policy allows QR codes or ID cards to be used to board a plane so long as the ID information is consistent with the ticket.

根據這項新政策，只要身份信息與票面信息一致，二維碼或身份證均可作爲登機憑證。

It's estimated that airlines could save more than 1 billion yuan each year by cutting back on more than 5,000 check-in counters, related staff and paperwork as a result of the new policy.

據估計，通過減少5000餘個值機櫃臺、相關工作人員和紙質文書，這項新政策可使航空公司每年節約逾10億元的成本。

IATA also plans to put real-time settlements between airline companies and sales agencies into practice in China, making it the first country in the world to do so.

此外，國際航協還計劃在中國實行航空公司和銷售代理之間的實時結算，使我國成爲全球首個開展這項業務的國家。

The introduction of daily settlement was held up by technical issues involving airline companies which Zhang said were not hard to resolve, and the cost was much less than the benefit.

實時結算的引入是由涉及航空公司的技術方面來支持的，張保建表示，這個問題不難解決，而且成本遠低於效益。

30% of settlements has been made by Wechat and Alipay online payments, to increase the speed of settlement for airline companies, added Zhang.

張保建還表示，目前通過微信和支付寶的實時結算已經佔到近30%的份額，提高了航空公司的結算速度。