Air Canada is piloting digital identification on select flights departing from Vancouver Airport to Winnipeg, and at the Air Canada Café at Toronto Pearson Airport, offering passengers paperless, seamless boarding.


Air Canada is piloting digital identification on select flights departing from Vancouver Airport to Winnipeg, and at the Air Canada Café at Toronto Pearson Airport, offering passengers paperless, seamless boarding.

Biometric touchpoints are to be installed across Frankfurt Airport, in collaboration with SITA and NEC, enabling travellers to seamlessly pass through each stage of the airport journey simply by scanning their face.

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Philadelphia International Airport is installing facial biometric technology at 25 boarding gates to help U.S. CBP process departing passengers on international flights safely and efficiently.
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iGA Istanbul Airport has started testing the Star Alliance Biometrics access system in collaboration with Turkish Airlines as part of efforts to deliver a contactless travel experience.

Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru has successfully rolled out the beta version of the biometric-based self-boarding solution DigiYatra.

Vision-Box has unveiled its Seamless Assistant, a new state-of-the-art security gateway device to make the passengers’ processing flow more efficient.

A TSA PreCheck enrolment initiative, provided by IDEMIA, has gone live at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, streamlining passenger processing.

SITA will develop bespoke biometric and vertiport technology, which will initially be implemented at the Skyports Cergy-Pontoise vertiport testbed in Paris, planned for completion in September 2022.

Travellers can create their secure American Airlines Mobile ID with TSA PreCheck membership, AAdvantage number, plus either a driver’s license or US passport.

Miami International Airport has announced that it is embarking on the largest implementation of biometrics at a U.S. airport, expected to be completed in 2023.

Every step from check-in to boarding at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby airports to be transformed in major modernisation.

Hamburg Airport has become the fourth airport to adopt Start Alliance’s biometrics platform, which is available to Austrian, SWISS and Lufthansa passengers.

Passengers can now verify their identity at the airport using their state-issued mobile driver’s license or mobile identification card in Apple Wallet on iPhone or Apple Watch.

The full webinar recording from FTE’s recent webinar in partnership with Idemia on ‘Next Generation Travel through Trusted Identity & Biometric Solutions’ is now available to watch.

The new palm vein scan will allow Korean Air to check the passenger’s ID and boarding information without checking their boarding pass.
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