Originally Posted by
NickB
Another issue with the old machines was the need to position yourself carefully for the machine to recognise your face. The new ones have a much better ability at identifying up a face from the environment and will recognise almost instantaneously.
I wouldsn't say they are considerably faster, they are a bit faster.
The real difference is that there are considerably, considerably more of them, and in all UK airports - and they are almost always all functioning, and they have people actually encouraging you to use them...
As a comparison, CDG 2E = 3 Parafes (rarely all working at the same time)/ LHR T5 = 20 (roughly).
Alternatively ORY = 0, LCY = 12... That's what makes it seem
significantly faster