Passport free travel for Britons between two global holiday destination

Saturday, June 29, 2019

With the advancement of biometric technology passports could soon become a thing of the past and face scans will be replacing hard copes between two major airports.

In the future the identity document will soon become null and void through the advancement of the biometric technology. In 2018 a trail of biometrics was introduced at the Heathrow Airport. The £50 million project  saw facial recognition added to check in, bag drop and boarding. It is expected in the future that London’s largest transport terminal will have the most biometrically enabled products in the world.

Those travelling around the world will be in luck now and it has been revealed that plane passengers travelling from Canada to the Netherlands will no more need their passports and a simple scan will be sufficient.

The technology will be able to identify the passengers boarding a plane at departure and to clear immigration. Any further checks will not be needed when travellers arrive at their destination.

Miguel Leitmann, Vision-Box CEO, said that this was an important step in the usage of leading-edge technologies at the service of the cross-border movement of people.

The Known Traveler Digital Identity is a major initiative in the domain of Identity Digitization, beacon of modern travel.

Global interoperability will be established and  privacy-preserving identity management models that will bring significant opportunities for the aviation, travel and tourism industries.

The key milestone of the delivery of the One iD framework will see technology and orchestration platform contributing to the concrete expression of modern travel.

KLM and Air Canada are among the airline partners.

Through a dedicated method passengers can take part in the self-service enrollment of their biometrics before getting started off with the biometric process.

A Heathrow spokeswoman said that the change will mean that at different touch points in the customer journey, before security, at departure gates passengers will not need to present several different travel documents over and over again. Once registered they’ll be able to use their faces as their ID.

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