Mobile ID
 

Anyone try it yet?

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/.../mobile-id.jsp

I was ready to try it at DFW A on Friday but the kiosk was broken and the TSA agent told me it actually takes a little longer than the “old fashioned” way.

For both TSA and AC, it only works at DFW right now.

I used facial recognition for boarding and it wasn’t faster than scanning a BP.

I had the displeasure of passing through pre-check behind a couple trying to use this at BWI last week. They held up the line a solid 10 minutes trying to get it to work.

Please have your actual ID handy in case it doesn't work the first time.

This works at BWI? The web page says DFW only.

Where else is it implemented?

maybe, I am just old fashioned... show a id... have printed ticket... but that is just me..all without using my phone

Great.. yet another app. Can we not do everything we need in 1 app when it comes to flying AA?

My state has a mobile ID app, although not sure where it is actually useful at this point. I'm not going to download 17 different mobile ID apps for everything I do.

The program at BWI is a different Mobile ID.

What is the point of this program? You have to open the app, display the barcode, scan the barcode, then pose for a photo. That sounds much slower and less convenient than simply handing over your drivers license or state ID.

All I can guess is that it’s an effort to collect facial recognition data for some future face-only program that won’t require a barcode.

They have been using facial recognition software for boarding all of my flights to Canada over that last ~8 months. I'm assuming they are using a passport photo database for this?
Not that I'm necessarily a George Orwell enthusiast, but I don't recall any explicit consent that was asked of me to be able to board this way.

I first encountered this flying MCO-FRA on LH and I recall seeing a little sign stating it was voluntary and that your information would be deleted after a short period of time.

As one poster put it perfectly. Tech is great. What is not great is having to fish around for five or six different apps. Why can't these developers work with AA so that the AA app can offer all of those features in one app. We keep trying to innovate to make it easier and that's great until it doesn't work.

AA and innovate usually don't go together.

Maybe this is why they have opposed CLEAR in terminals/airports they control

They use CBP data for that program. They built the initial data set off of passport photos and then refined it using photos from the APC kiosks. You can opt out of biometric boarding but you cannot opt out of CBP sharing your data with 3rd parties.

No one raised a big stink or class action lawsuit about facial biometrics for boarding international flights using passport photos so now they are expanding it to domestic flights using drivers license photos. APC kiosks were the thin end of the wedge to building the biometric database that now enables you to enter the country without any paper document. Likewise, this program will in 2-3 years, allow TSA to identify you by photo without any documents.

Saw this at IAD today.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...390287977.jpeg

I am not sure how this supposed to speed up TSA Pre-Check process. Most times, the ID checking is not the bottleneck, it's the carry-on baggage scanning. Often, the TSA agent checking IDs has to stop so the bagger scanning can catch up.

Today at DFW D this was active and it allowed one to cut the significant PreCheck line.