Last week, Cologne, Germany-based Lufthansa Group kicked off a new boarding procedure at Los Angeles International Airport that may soon dramatically improve aircraft boarding times. The biometric boarding procedure was built in conjunction with Amadeus, which powers the airline's booking system, the CBP and Vision Box, the technology that captures and compares head shots. LufthansaLufthansa's new system takes advantage of the already-existing CBP database of passengers and travel records to automatically double check that passengers are getting onto the right aircraft. Earlier this month, British Airways announced that it was expanding a similar program from Los Angeles International to Orlando, Miami and JFK. Last July, Delta even started trialing a system that allows travelers to board aircraft with fingerprints instead of boarding passes.

Source: Forbes March 25, 2018 16:30 UTC