Air France will test biometric boarding at JFK and Houston

Air France-KLM plans to swap boarding passes for facial recognition on Air France flights departing from John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City and George Bush International Airport (IAH) in Houston. The trial run is expected to impact more than 2,200 passengers daily, and it will help Air France-KLM advance its goal to bring facial recognition to all US gateways by 2020. The company already uses biometric boarding in a handful of US cities -- Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas,… (www.engadget.com) Plus d'info...