Lugging around boarding passes and needing to check in for flights will be scrapped as part of the biggest aviation industry shake-up in 50 years, The Times reported. Within the next “two to three years,” passengers will be able to upload their passports on their phones to pass through the airport using only their face for verification. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN body responsible for policy, plans to replace the existing rules for airports and airlines with a new “digital travel credential” that will allow passport information stored on devices to be used for travel.
“The last upgrade of great scale was the adoption of e-ticketing in the early 2000s,” Valérie Viale, the director of product management at a travel technology company called Amadeus, told the Times. “The industry has now decided it’s time to upgrade to modern systems that are more like what Amazon would use.”
Although the new technology might spark some privacy concerns, Amadeus claims that the system it developed wipes passengers’ details within 15 seconds of each contact with a “touchpoint,” like the pre-security gates. Read more at The Times.
{Matzav.com}
Cool!
Still though, they can’t think of a way to secure that luggage arriving at airports be securely taken off the carousel. How many people have had their luggage taken either in error or as a crime. It’s high time there were security measures put in place. Think of how much security one undergoes when checking in before the flight – have you ever flown ELAL and undergone their security check? yet when exiting the airport after the flight, it’s a free-for-all.
What about flipphones?
Smartphones are assur.
What about shoes, belt etc etc removals?
Aviation is the only heavily used daily industry that’s only going backward and downward as time moves on…. time to eliminate removing shoes and other stuff.
The main goal of the corrupt TSA is to dehumanize us American citizens. While they’re busy making us undress, millions of smelly illegal bums are waltzing across our wide open borders unchecked.