International. The Dulles International Airport in Dallas surprised travelers on certain flights, many of them were made to board, but when they went to get their boarding passes the flight attendants told them that they were not necessary: they just had to look at a camera located at the entrance of the boarding.
The facial recognition system is the first to be launched at airports in the U.S., and could usher in a trend to say goodbye to traditional boarding passes.
Many will wonder where the photos with which the recognition is compared come from. The answer lies in two official sources. The first, for U.S. citizens, is in their passports.
The second, for foreigners, is in the photos that are taken at customs control and that verify our identity when entering the United States. Those photos taken by scanning the passengers' faces remain in the system for 14 days in this testing period and will be kept 12 hours later, but in the future the system will delete them as soon as the comparison has been made.
The system, called veriScan, has been developed to propose a future alternative to the traditional shipping system. According to those responsible for this project, the scanning of our face takes just a fraction of a second and shows an accuracy of 99%.
The verification through facial recognition allows boarding in about half the time of traditional processes, say those in charge of the project: "no more entanglements with the boarding pass while you carry your bags or even children in your arms, no more having to try to find the QR code on your mobile".
The first flight on which this option was introduced was one bound for Copenhagen operated by Scandinavian Airlines. United Airlines and Air France/KLM are also starting to use the system, which is also aimed at detecting the entry of people with false passports, something that happened last August in preliminary tests.
