If your travels this summer will take you through London’s Heathrow Airport (the world’s busiest international airport), then be prepared to go through some new biometric security measures.
According to a Business Week article, Heathrow has been testing the measures over the last 4 months with Cathay Pacific and Emirates Airlines. 81% of the passengers who volunteered to participate in the trial approved of the measure.
“The basic miSense security screening required passengers to scan their passport and right index finger at a self-service check-in kiosk before getting a boarding card. The manual check before security is then replaced by an automatic barrier activated by the passenger’s fingerprint and a biometric reader verifies the passenger again at the boarding gate.
A more advanced miSense screening collected 10 fingerprint, two iris and a facial image scan during a manual enrolment. This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used in conjunction with a fingerprint reader at an automatic immigration barrier on arrival at Dubai, Heathrow or Hong Kong airports.”
Personally, I have been routing all my east-bound flights through Frankfurt lately.
Call Over:
Jenise Hegel:
anonymous:
Boom:
issmat:
Passer by:
leroy:
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I think it’s good idea personally…
parking at Heathrow