04 February 2021 15:50 GMT
Delta customers at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport now have the option to move through the airport faster and more easily. In partnership with Transportation Security Administration, Delta is launching the first facial recognition option for domestic travelers using a digital ID made up of a customer’s passport number and TSA PreCheck membership.
Beginning February, customers traveling in the U.S. will be able to use that digital ID – verified by facial recognition technology – to move through the Edward H. McNamara Terminal’s dedicated TSA PreCheck domestic checkpoint. This capability will expand to bag drop and boarding in early 2021, making Detroit the first airport to have a facial recognition option from curb to gate for TSA PreCheck customers traveling domestically – an important step on the path to an easier and more touchless airport experience. This builds on Delta’s existing facial recognition option for any customer t
Delta Air Lines Launches First Domestic Digital ID Test
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about a month agoDelta Air Lines has announced the launch of the first domestic digital identity tests in the U.S., which will be made available to all Delta passengers at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport who are willing to use their passport number and their TSA PreCheck or Global Entry number as a digital ID. (airlinegeeks.com) More.
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Using an automated kiosk, I tag my bag.
(In STT, where I fly out of normally) I carry my bag through and place it on the conveyors.
With Facial Recognition, I m allowed to move from the landside to the airside area.
Christmas travel will create a nightmarish surge in coronavirus infections.
At least 1.28 million ignored US travel warnings and boarded flights on Sunday, according to figures from the Transportation and Security Administration.
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Monday is the sixth day in a row that around one million people travelled across the nation by air despite public health warningsCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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MORE than 1.28 million Americans flew on Sunday - the highest volume of travelers in a single day since the pandemic beganCredit: AP:Associated Press
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Travelers check in for their flights at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, amid the coronavirus disease Credit: Reuters
Coronavirus updates: Air travel hits pandemic high amid winter holidays Brittany Shammas, Reis Thebault Travelers claim their baggage at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., on Dec. 24 amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) U.S. air travel hit its highest peak of the pandemic over the weekend, as Americans crisscrossed the country for the holidays despite a dramatic surge in cases and hospitalizations. The Transportation Security Administration screened a record 1,284,599 passengers on Sunday, spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said. It was also the sixth time in the past 10 days that the daily volume exceeded 1 million a milestone that had become somewhat of a rarity since March, when the coronavirus began upending travel.