Emirates launches 2-second biometric boarding system for US flights
Sep 21, 2019, 10:13 pm
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Emirates launches 2-second biometric boarding system for US flights
Emirates launches 2-second biometric boarding system for US flights
"Emirates has become the first airline outside the US to receive approval for biometric boarding from the US Customs Border Protection (CBP).
Soon, customers flying from Dubai to any of Emirates' 12 destinations in the US will be able to choose facial recognition technology at the departure gates, reducing the time taken for identity checks to two seconds or less. No pre-registration is required, and customers may also choose not to use the technology. Emirates does not store any biometric records of its customers - all the data is managed securely by CBP.
The technology was piloted at the departure gates of Emirates' flights from Dubai to New York and Los Angeles through the peak periods in July and August.
The results were encouraging with some flights achieving 100 per cent biometric boarding and zero manual checks.
The airline expects to make biometric boarding available for all its US destinations by year-end, once the equipment is in place."
"Emirates has become the first airline outside the US to receive approval for biometric boarding from the US Customs Border Protection (CBP).
Soon, customers flying from Dubai to any of Emirates' 12 destinations in the US will be able to choose facial recognition technology at the departure gates, reducing the time taken for identity checks to two seconds or less. No pre-registration is required, and customers may also choose not to use the technology. Emirates does not store any biometric records of its customers - all the data is managed securely by CBP.
The technology was piloted at the departure gates of Emirates' flights from Dubai to New York and Los Angeles through the peak periods in July and August.
The results were encouraging with some flights achieving 100 per cent biometric boarding and zero manual checks.
The airline expects to make biometric boarding available for all its US destinations by year-end, once the equipment is in place."
Sep 22, 2019, 7:21 am
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Probably, but I'm still trying to figure out why this will save time? Getting through the layers of security for laptop checks once at the gate was the only problem I noticed last time I was in Dubai. I'll be going back in a few months, so maybe I'll notice some new changes on my flight back to the US.
Sep 22, 2019, 7:49 am
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Probably, but I'm still trying to figure out why this will save time? Getting through the layers of security for laptop checks once at the gate was the only problem I noticed last time I was in Dubai. I'll be going back in a few months, so maybe I'll notice some new changes on my flight back to the US.