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New York airport boasts biometric self-boarding
October 22, 2019
Terminal 1 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport now offers Lufthansa travelers a biometric self-boarding option.
The system is a paperless boarding process that uses facial recognition, according to a New York Post report. Passengers are not required to present a boarding pass or passport for travel.
Airport officials said the technology will also be deployed at Air France, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Japan Airlines at the terminal in the future.
"It's become crucial for airports and airlines to adopt biometric capabilities along the processes which require interaction with the traveler, therefore enhancing and scaling operational capacity for growing quicker within their existing footprint," Miguel Leitmann, CEO and founder of Vision-Box, which deployed the system via a partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Terminal One Group Association, told the Post.
The news comes a year after another airline, JetBlue, launched a biometric self-board gate for a select number of international flights at Terminal 5 at the Queens airport.
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