Invitation to Media - Launch of the first paperless cross border travel at YUL

MONTRÉAL, June 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the governments of Canada and the Netherlands, invites media representatives to the very first demonstration of a new technology that will allow passengers to travel across international borders without paper. Initially conducted as a pilot project, it will allow travel between Canada and the Netherlands without a passport, using e-passport information stored securely in their phone.

DATEBOOK
WHAT:	Launch and demo of the first paperless, cross border travel
WHEN:	Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE:	YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport Security Checkpoint A (in front of Burger King restaurant)
SPEECHES:	Christoph Wolff, Head of Mobility Industries, World Economic Forum  Michael Keenan, Deputy Minister of Transport, Transport Canada Ankie Broekers-Knol, Minister for Migration, The Netherlands (remarks via video) Philippe Rainville, President and CEO, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Boubacar Djibo, Director of Air Transport Bureau, ICAO (delivering remarks on behalf of ICAO Secretary General)

SOURCE Aéroports de Montréal

Madeleine Hillyer, Relations média, World Economic Forum, [phone] | [phone], [email protected]; ADM Aéroports de Montréal, [email protected], 514 394-7304

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