{"id":5822,"date":"2024-02-08T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:27:22","slug":"first-biometric-boarding-for-an-international-flight-at-yul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/2024\/02\/first-biometric-boarding-for-an-international-flight-at-yul\/","title":{"rendered":"First biometric boarding for an international flight at YUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On January 29, the first passengers on flight KL672 were able to board biometrically at gate 57 for their flight to the Netherlands. This is a first in Canada, and a first for a transcontinental flight to the European Union!\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Biometrics is a new boarding process that uses facial recognition technology. Unlike the usual process of presenting one&#8217;s passport to an agent, travellers simply present their face to a screen and place their passport against the electronic gate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This historic boarding is part of a multi-week pilot project at YUL, designed to test the concept of the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Digital Travel Credential<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (DTC), a new standard issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To find out more about the pilot project, click here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.klm.ca\/information\/travel-documents\/travel-canada\/dtc-pilot\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.klm.ca\/information\/travel-documents\/travel-canada\/dtc-pilot<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To visualize the biometric journey of a passenger departing from YUL to Schiphol airport, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L9kSwei92vM\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">click here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Congratulations to the teams involved!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 29, the first passengers on flight KL672 were able to board biometrically at gate 57 for their flight to the Netherlands. This is a first in Canada, and a first for a transcontinental flight to the European Union!\u00a0\u00a0 Biometrics is a new boarding process that uses facial recognition technology. Unlike the usual process&nbsp;[&#8230;]<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/2024\/02\/first-biometric-boarding-for-an-international-flight-at-yul\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honour-roll","publication-montreal-trudeau-express-en"],"new_scheduled_revision":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yulexpress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}