In accordance with Letter Notice Ref. No.2959 dated on 30st September A.D.2019, subjected the Rule and Liability for Person, Juristic Person and other relevant sectors on the requirement for Advance Passenger Processing and Passenger Name Record for Pre-Screening of Air Passengers.
The required APP and PNR data are transmitted by the air carriers to the Laos Immigration system.
The Government Directive requires the owners and/or air operators, including aircraft operated by scheduled and unscheduled airlines, air charters and general aviation operators, arriving, leaving or transiting through Lao PDR, to provide advanced passenger processing (APP) and passenger name records (PNR) to the Laos Immigration.
The information to be provided shall be in respect of every passenger and crew on board flights arriving, leaving, or transiting Lao PDR.
In case of Entities and related sectors responsible for carrying the persons shall be being educated, warned and fined.
The effective date shall be 1st Feb 2020.
Besides, Airline must inform passengers that their APP and PNR data are transferred to the Laos Immigration system which is under the purview of Laos Immigration.
The Laos Immigration system requires Airlines to send the APP and PNR Data in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Department of Civil Aviation Lao PDR (DCAL) regulation to be provided in real-time when the person is being checked-in for APP and on actual time of departure and at specified times before scheduled departure of each flight for PNR as shown below:
PNR: T-72 hours before STD (Scheduled Time of Departure), T-24 hours before STD, T-6 hours before STD and at ATD (Actual Time of Departure) Flight Close.
PNR data provided at T-24, T-6, T-0/ATD may only contain new PNRs (not previously provided at T-72) and change to previously transmitted PNRs as agreed between the Air Carriers and Laos Immigration Airline Engagement Team. In case of changes to previously transmitted PNR data, the Air Carriers must provide all data elements for an updated PNR rather than provide the updated elements only. The PNR system supports Only Push data acquisition methods.
