Biometric (facial recognition) tickets?

[Stone Cold]

Delta Brings Biometric Boarding to Detroit Airport

If you’re flying out of Detroit, starting this week you could find an unexpected perk: the ability to stroll onto the plane without presenting a smartphone or a piece of paper. Your face, in effect, will serve as your boarding pass.

That’s because Delta Air Lines is bringing biometric boarding devices to its Michigan hub following tests of the technology at two of its other main international gateways, New York-JFK and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta. Delta's working with Customs and Border Patrol, which has partnered with several other airlines including JetBlue and Lufthansa, to test biometric technology that scans passengers’ faces to speed up the boarding process. Here's how it works: Interested fliers simply approach the camera at the gate when it's their turn to board, and after their image is captured, they get a receipt and board the plane.

Thoughts?

 

[RetiredATLATC]

If it's good enough for my S9+, it's good enough for Delta.

Used all the time in the EU, and it gets me where I'm going faster.

 

[gne in prog]

emails telling me that a company's it systems have been hacked and my biometric data stolen will be a nice change from the ordinary "your personal and financial information has been stolen" emails, so i'm looking forward to that.

 

[srn121]

Facial recognition has a long way to go and I wonder how many errors it will cause or if it will really save time at all over tickets. It's a nice gimmick, but I didn't realize paper tickets or using your phone were such horrible options. Also what do you end up pulling out if someone decides they're sitting in your seat?

 

[JeppUpdater]

Also what do you end up pulling out if someone decides they're sitting in your seat?

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I think you know.

 

[DogwoodLynx]

Lol. Hope they don't use the WIndows 10 version of facial recognition!

 

[jtrain609]

I wonder if there was an airline doing this (for better or worse) a year ago...

JetBlue Experiments With Using Your Face As A Boarding Pass

 

[skatergeek]

Delta has had this set up in the T gates of ATL for quite a while. No clue how it works and I’ve never seen them use it...

 

[Cptnchia]

I wonder if there was an airline doing this (for better or worse) a year ago...

JetBlue Experiments With Using Your Face As A Boarding Pass

Didn’t read the whole article, huh?

That’s because Delta Air Lines is bringing biometric boarding devices to its Michigan hub following tests of the technology at two of its other main international gateways, New York-JFK and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta. Delta's working with Customs and Border Patrol, which has partnered with several other airlines including JetBlue and Lufthansa,

 

[Deleted member 27505]

Delta Brings Biometric Boarding to Detroit Airport



Thoughts?

Nope. If folks were thinking, this kinda thing wouldn't be happening.