Originally Posted by
Boraxo
UA app manages to scan passports with camera without need for a nonfunctional 3rd party app - not sure why AS can’t do the same.Also UA retains the info in my account so I don’t need to scan again. Not sure why this is too difficult for AS.
The Airside app has been working fine for me with Alaska reservations, and it's been working fine for my wife. It remembers the passport for each of us, and entering a trip is quick. When we make a new reservation however, Alaska keeps bringing up an old passport for each of us; I suspect we have to call it in.
Originally Posted by
dayone
The scanned passport in the United app also can be used with UA's trial of the TSA PreCheck's Touchless Identity (facial recognition) Solution. I certainly hope that AS joins AA, DL and UA in rolling out this functionality.
"The agents working at the TSA PreCheck and Clear lines told me to use a new special lane for biometrics that allowed me to skip ahead of both the regular PreCheck and the separate Clear lanes," he said. "After one minute, the TSA agent waved me over. I simply showed my face in front of a camera, and the agent told me to go ahead to the screening machines. There was no wait."
Sounds as easy as Global Entry, which works nicely for us.