Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay has become the first in Latin America to have facial recognition at boarding gates.Carrasco Airport has extended the facial recognition system to the boarding gates, which means that passengers have no need to show documentation.The airport said this positions the terminal to be the first in Latin America, where the flow of passengers is carried out in its entirety through facial biometrics technology, from migration to entry into the aircraft.The new technology was presented at an event that was attended by national authorities and the company. In the first instance, the system will work to enable the access of the users to the flights of Latam Airlines but later it will be extended to the rest of the airlines.”We seek to transform the Carrasco Airport into a beacon of innovation in Latin America. For that we have signed agreements with the main technology suppliers and that is possible thanks to the high quality of labor that Uruguay has, “said Diego Arrosa, CEO of Corporación AmÉrica.The initiative is part of Easy Airport, the technological development plan implemented by the airport in conjunction with the Ministry of National Defense through the National Directorate of Civil Aviation and Aeronautical Infrastructure (Dinacia) and the Ministry of the Interior through the Directorate National of Migration, with the aim of achieving the total automation of the terminal. Arrosa indicated that “when all the phases of the Easy Airport program are completed, the positioning of the Carrasco Airport will be that of one of the terminals most advanced in the region in the use of self-service technology and biometrics for the management of passenger flows”.
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