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Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 22 2017, @10:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the did-the-agents-want-$15/hour? dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Delta is testing a face-scanning kiosk for baggage check.

The machine allows passengers to bypass check-in agents. It uses facial recognition technology to match your identity to your passport photo. You tag your own bags, pay the fee and drop your luggage on a conveyor belt.

Passengers without passports can still check their own bags, but they need a Delta agent to confirm their identities.

Delta will test four of the machines at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport this summer. The airline spent $600,000 on the four kiosks.

Delta said the kiosks could allow the airline to move twice as many passengers per hour through check-in.

Source: CNN

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @01:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @01:44PM (#513479)

    There's nothing like waiting in line and the family in front of you have just found out that one of their five bags is over 50 lbs, and now they've got them all open on the floor as they shuffle things between them, and re-weigh them, all the while you keep checking your watch because you're afraid that you (or your bags) will miss the flight).

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @02:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @02:05PM (#513486)

    Better that than having the plane crash because a suitcase was too heavy!