e-gate

plural e-gates

1. An electronic immigration gate at an airport, using biometrics etc.

   […] currently trialling e-gates at Manchester Airport […]

   2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, The future of aviation: first report of session 2009-10, volume 2, page 303

   3 more examples

   For arrivals, there are 52 arrival passport counters and 12 e-gates […]

   2011, Norman J. Ashford, Saleh Mumayiz, Paul H. Wright, Airport Engineering, page 695

   The outage was the latest in a long line of failures of the e-gate system.

   2024 May 8, Jack Simpson, Rajeev Syal, “What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?”, in The Guardian

   British tourists will have to endure passport-stamping queues in the EU until at least October and possibly well into 2026 despite a high profile e-gates agreement unveiled at Monday’s EU-UK summit in London, it has emerged.

   2025 May 20, Lisa O'Carroll, Jessica Elgot, Sam Jones, Kiran Stacey, “Britons will not be able to use e-gates in EU until October at earliest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN