Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti...
by wccrawford on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:04AM
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>If someone's boarding pass isn't correct or there's some other issue, there gets to be a big backlog while they get sorted out.
And that's still going to be the case with facial recognition.
The only time saved is scanning a ticket vs scanning a face. And people are pretty much guaranteed not to lose their faces.
Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti...
by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:13AM
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> And that's still going to be the case with facial recognition.
Not if it's an automated gate.
I just got back from Australia, and the passport gates there are automated facial recognition; they look kinda like the gates in a subway where you scan a travel card.
A reject heads over to the desk to get sorted. Everyone else keeps going through the automated gate.
On smaller flights, there may only be one gate agent and scanner. If someone's boarding pass isn't correct or there's some other issue, there gets to be a big backlog while they get sorted out. Sometimes that takes several minutes, and the smaller flights are often the ones with short 20-30 minute turnarounds scheduled.
Had this happen on a flight I took a few weeks back.