Fiumicino airport trials biometrics at departures
Rome’s Fiumicino airport has started a trial of facial recognition for departing passengers. Italy’s largest airport is the first in the country tRead More…
Category: New technology
Las Vegas Airport allows self-driving vehicles at pick up and drop off
Aptiv announced it has been awarded access to pick up and drop off a select group of passengers via its self-driving vehicles at the McCarran InternatRead More…
British Airways to trial Bill the robot for passenger service
British Airways is the latest airline to announce plans to trial fully autonomous robots in 2020. From 2020, the airline is trialling AI-powereRead More…
ANA using interactive translator devices at Japanese airports
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has introduced an interactive translator at Japanese airports. ANA is introducing the hand-held device, called POCRead More…
Korean Air expands its use of self service
Korean Air has expanded its self-service offerings at Atlanta and Incheon. The airline is now using facial recognition for passengers boarding at ARead More…
Christchurch Airport trials Pepper the robot
Christchurch Airport has started trials of Pepper the robot at its terminal. The airport has been trialling three Pepper robots at the airport for Read More…
ANA to expand self-driving wheelchair tests at Narita Airport
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is expanding its trial of self-driving wheelchairs at Narita Airport (NRT). The airline initially started a trial of theRead More…
Emirates to start biometric boarding for flights to the U.S.
Passengers on Emirates flights from Dubai to the United States will be able to board their flights using biometric technology by the end of 2019. ERead More…
American Airlines starts biometric boarding at Dallas Fort Worth
American Airlines is now using biometric boarding for passengers departing from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The airline is startRead More…
Barbados International adds more biometric border control kiosks
Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) in Barbados has expanded its use of self-service border control kiosks. The airport now has 48 border cRead More…
British Airways to trial virtual reality headsets
British Airways is trialling virtual reality headsets on some flights from Heathrow. Using the VR headsets, passengers will be transported to theirRead More…
Gatwick launches chatbot called Gail
Gatwick Airport has launched a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to provide passengers with flight information, flight specific notifications, and informaRead More…
Kempegowda Airport and Vistara introduce biometrics
Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru (BLR), has introduced a new biometric system with Vistara Airways (UK). Passengers on Vistara flight Read More…
Star Alliance is going to track its passengers with biometrics
Star Alliance, the world’s largest airline alliance, and NEC Corporation are going to develop a biometric data-based identification platform. TheRead More…
CLEAR launches at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
CLEAR, the expedited security clearance service, is now available at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM). The Alabama airport is tRead More…
Biometric boarding now at Dallas Fort Worth with Emirates
Facial recognition is now an option for passengers on Emirates daily flight from Dallas Fort Worth to Dubai. The biometric technology provides a moRead More…
Hyderabad Airport trials facial recognition for passengers
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad is trialling facial recognition for passengers to get airside. The trial uses facial recognition toRead More…
Sendai Airport trials AI-powered chatbot to help passengers
Sendai Airport is trialling an AI-powered chatbot to assist English-speaking passengers. The airport, north of Tokyo, is starting a 3-month trial oRead More…
Netherlands, Canada to launch trial of epassports for transatlantic flights
The Netherlands and Canada are launching a trial of paperless travel between the countries. Passengers enrolled in the pilot project will be able tRead More…
Delta expands use of facial recognition for boarding
Delta Air Lines, in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is introducing biometric boarding at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta InternaRead More…