Evoked for several months, the biometric boarding will be tested across the Atlantic with the Air France company, leaving the field free to face recognition.
Soon, it could be possible to swap his boarding pass (materialized or dematerialized) against a biometric boarding made possible thanks to facial recognition. Air France-KLM will test this technology from US airports John F Kennedy in New York and George Bush in Houston. 2,200 passengers are expected to be affected each day, pending facial recognition at all US crossings by next year.
Biometric boarding, saving time and paperwork
The airline Air France has put a big goal on the table: it wants to offer biometric boarding in 93% of US airports by the end of the year and in 100% of them in 2020 at the end of the year. later. "We are delighted to be able to adopt an innovation that will make the journey less stressful and safer for our passengers," said Vice President of the company's American subsidiary, Stéphane Ormand.
Air France already uses the system in the United States in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle, Dulles, and Virginia. The principle is that when registering (via the application or via a terminal at the airport), the traveler scans his passport. When the latter then deposits his luggage or embarking, it is enough for him to go through the stage of facial recognition, where an automaton is responsible for making the link between the captured image and the biometric data of the passenger, thus allowing to save time, while airports are increasingly congested.
Several companies and airports around the world get involved and debate
As our colleagues from Engadget remind us, biometric boarding is not new. British Airways is already running its own tests, just like JetBlue. In Australia, Qantas passengers board with facial recognition. The Dubai International Airport scans the faces of passengers as they pass through a tunnel full of cameras (more than 80!) Intended to connect the subject to the face of the passport used.
As you would expect, privileging facial recognition raises ethical concerns. The fluctuating error rate and the processing of personal data are all points that tend to put some travelers off.
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