If you travel by plane, you may have already noticed that airports are integrating more and more technologies. And this continues: an experiment around facial recognition will be launched in early 2020 in Orly by the ADP group and Air France, to facilitate the passenger journey at each stage before boarding.
Facial recognition already existed at Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, at the border crossing point, with the SAS Parafe (rapid automated crossing of the external borders) where the passport acts as a sesame. The idea now is to develop this principle for registration and boarding. "If you wish (because the consent is free, under the control of the CNIL course), you ask your passport, you have your picture taken and this information is reused for the transition to boarding," said Edward Arkwright, director General of the ADP group, at the microphone of Europe 1.
Air traffic still rising, with + 6% at Roissy last year
The experiment will start at Orly with Air France on certain destinations, but these innovations will be found throughout the network of ADP airports. "On average we see that for some processes like registration, in comparison with someone who will take your papers, look in the computer who you are and take out your boarding pass, someone who does it on something automated will do it three times faster, "says Franck Mereyde, number 2 of TAV Airports in Turkey.
A need for fluidity that is crucial for ADP since air traffic is still increasing, with + 6% at Roissy last year, and airport expansion will not see the light of day until 2028.