As international travel resumes and continues to increase, U.S. airports may soon be considering the adoption of an international outbound biometric boarding solution to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in fulfilling its congressional mandate for biometric passenger confirmation on exit.
SITA provides smart, scalable, and reliable biometric screening solutions that can be deployed within a few months. This capability now extends beyond departures to include arrival passengers through Enhanced Passenger Processing (EPP), enabling a seamless, secure, and efficient experience across the entire journey.
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SITA's Smart Path solution technology partners with CBP in fulfilling its congressional mandate for biometrically confirming passengers at exit and establishes a platform for your future biometric processing needs. The benefits of partnering with SITA include the following:
Proven success with biometric exit in the US market
Our award-winning approach to US biometric exit includes deployment of more than 600 biometric-enabled systems in the US, serving nearly every airline with international operations. Our solution has a proven 99.5% match-rate and 30% reduction in boarding times.
SITA’s US Exit customers include:
✔ Greater Orlando Aviation Authority
✔ Miami International Airport
✔ San Francisco International Airport
✔ Boston Logan Airport
✔ San Diego International Airport
✔ Los Angeles TBIT terminal
✔ Philadelphia International Airport
Deciding on your technology partner to implement US Exit is about more than just meeting the CBP ambition. This is about taking the first step in bringing the seamless travel journey to your airport customers: your airlines and your passengers.
SITA is ready to help.
The results – Miami International Airport
Since 2019, passengers departing from Miami International Airport to Munich on Lufthansa flights have been able to board with the quick click of a camera instead of a boarding pass and passport, thanks to the airport’s launch of SITA’s biometric exit technology.
Through a partnership between SITA, MIA, Lufthansa and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a simple photograph taken at Lufthansa’s boarding gate is used to confirm passengers’ identities and their authorization to travel. The facial recognition verification process takes less than two seconds with a 99-percent matching rate. The launch of biometric exit at Miami International follows the airport’s February 2018 opening of America’s first all-biometric entry facility at Concourse E, which screens all international arrivals via facial recognition. The introduction of biometrics has decreased processing times by as much as 80 percent. More recently, Miami International Airport has chosen SITA to implement biometric boarding at over 130 gates by 2023.
Biometric boarding landing soon at Miami International Airport
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