using their face for verification
And here is where they underestimate how belligerent people can be.
Sound worse to me for the travellers and airlines
This would be stupid
The whole thing is just security theater and rights violations. It’s so stupid.
I do not like this. At all. Facial recognition and forced digitization? I’m disabled, and when I request assistance, I literally cannot use a digital boarding pass. And the favial recognition just seems like such a breach.
Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.
But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.
passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned
They can’t even reliably scan a QR code, how can they pull that off with 100% accuracy?
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How delays and connecting flights are handled could also change. Under the technology being developed, passengers who miss connecting flights due to delays out of their control could automatically be sent a notification on their phones with details of their new onward flight. Their journey pass would automatically update and they would be allowed to board the new flight.
This is the only part of that whole thing that sounds any good.
This isn’t new though, I landed after a long flight last year and had a notification asking me to confirm rebooking to another flight because mine was delayed.
Turns out that no the flight wasn’t delayed and luckily I mentioned it when dropping my bag because a person had to sort it out for me and rebooked me back on my original flight that was on time. So now I don’t trust the technology at all.
