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Of­fi­cials con­duct­ed a tri­al run of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new on­line ar­rival and de­par­ture card sys­tem at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sat­ur­day with three Caribbean Air­lines flights, as of­fi­cials pre­pare for its roll­out to­mor­row.Trav­ellers on flights BW 527 and BW 431 ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co, along with pas­sen­gers on out­bound flight BW 240, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the ex­er­cise. The process re­quired them to log on to the Gov­ern­ment’s trav­el por­tal, cre­ate an ac­count us­ing an email ad­dress, up­load a pho­to­graph of the bio­da­ta page of their pass­port, and com­plete the re­quired im­mi­gra­tion and cus­toms de­tails be­fore trav­el.

In a state­ment pro­vid­ed to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, CAL re­port­ed that the elec­tron­ic card sys­tem was well-re­ceived by cus­tomers dur­ing the tri­al. Pas­sen­gers un­fa­mil­iar with the plat­form re­ceived as­sis­tance from the air­line’s cus­tomer ser­vice rep­re­sen­ta­tives sta­tioned at the air­port. Those rep­re­sen­ta­tives will re­main avail­able to as­sist trav­ellers when the sys­tem be­comes ful­ly op­er­a­tional.The air­line in­di­cat­ed that no ma­jor is­sues emerged dur­ing the ex­er­cise, and prepa­ra­tions re­main on track for the im­ple­men­ta­tion to­mor­row.

Guardian Me­dia al­so con­tact­ed a Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cial who is over­see­ing the dig­i­tal plat­form. How­ev­er, the of­fi­cial con­firmed they were aware of some mi­nor tech­ni­cal con­cerns raised by trav­ellers dur­ing test­ing, adding work is un­der­way to re­solve them be­fore the of­fi­cial launch.