Monday 25 July 2011

Heathrow To Introduce Face Scanners

The UK's largest airport Heathrow will install facial recognition scanners in September in an attempt to prevent illegal immigration into the country. The passenger's face is scanned, after receiving a boarding pass and just before the security check. Before the person boards their flight, their faces are scanned again when they leave the airport waiting room.

Facial recognition scanners are to ensure that passenger board the correct flight. For example, a passenger who arrives from LA won’t be able to get hold of a domestic ticket and fly to Edinburgh.

Aurora Computer Services is the company behind the technology which is based in the UK, the company says their machines known as AIR Systems(Aurora Recognition Systems) can identify a passenger from up to 3 feet away by reading the biometric details of the passengers.

Monday 18 July 2011

Court Allows TSA Use Of Body Scanners

An appeal court in the US gave the Transportation Security Administration(TSA) the green light to carry on using full body scanners, but stated passengers should have been made aware before using them.



The court ruled the machines known as Advanced Imaging Technology(AIT) were not an unconstitutional search and allowed the TSA to continue using them.

All passengers have the option to opt out of the scanner search and opt for the traditional pat-down instead. Something which many passengers were not aware of, the ruling has been sent back to the TSA with a call for action.

The TSA hit back by saying they do seek customer input and that AIT’s were a major part of their multi layered security for detecting non metallic explosive devices.

Thursday 7 July 2011

Ryanair Brings New Service To Corfu

Ryanair will begin a new service this morning from Stansted airport with flights bound for the Greek Island of Corfu, the new service will be running every Monday and Thursday in an attempt to entice family travellers with the lure of sun and sand.

The scheduled service to Corfu adds to the current Greek destinations from Stansted including Rhodes and Thessaloniki. Nick Barton Stansted Managing director said the airport offered more scheduled flights to European destinations than any other airport and was delighted to add Corfu to that list.

Other new routes announced earlier in the year was a new service to Malmo, Sweeden which will operate every day starting on the 2nd November.