Cardiff Airport introduce biometric gates
17.11.09
Cardiff Airport is introducing facial recognition gates for arriving passengers. The new gates will be available for any UK or European adult with a biometric passport issued since 2006, and are designed to take cut queues as they can take seconds to scan passengers' faces against digital photos in passports.
The gates are being run in partnership between the UK Border Agency and Cardiff Airport. The voluntary system is being introduced in a trial at 10 UK airports and is already operating at Heathrow, Manchester, Stansted and Bristol.
The e-gates will still check against security watch-lists in the same way as the usual manual gates, and passengers will still be subject to random manual checks. Bob Lyne, UK Border Force assistant director for Wales, said the facial recognition gates would improve its service and help to make the UK safer.
The next airports where the technology will be introduced are Birmingham, East Midlands, Gatwick North Terminal and Luton.
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