{"id":1542,"date":"2024-02-28T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/at-a-growing-list-of-airports-tsa-precheck-travelers-no-longer-have-to-show-physical-ids-or-boarding-passes\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:06:14","slug":"at-a-growing-list-of-airports-tsa-precheck-travelers-no-longer-have-to-show-physical-ids-or-boarding-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/at-a-growing-list-of-airports-tsa-precheck-travelers-no-longer-have-to-show-physical-ids-or-boarding-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"At a growing list of airports, TSA PreCheck travelers no longer have to show physical IDs or boarding passes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019re a TSA PreCheck member traveling on United Airlines via Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare or Los Angeles international airports, life just got a bit easier.<\/p>\n

United recently updated its website to show that \u2018Touchless ID\u2019 technology, which lets users go through security just by scanning their face and without having to show a physical ID or a boarding pass, is now available at those two major hubs for TSA Pre users. <\/p>\n

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Additionally, United passengers at O\u2019Hare can use their face at a new bag-drop shortcut.<\/p>\n

To enroll in United\u2019s Touchless ID, a passenger needs to scan their passport and add their Known Traveler Number (KTN) in the United app. The passenger then needs to check in for their flight on the mobile app in order to opt-in and give United permission to use your facial scan as an ID.<\/p>\n

Once at the airport, a passenger would only need to scan their face at new Touchless ID kiosks.<\/p>\n

For now, Touchless ID at United is only available for customers on single-passenger reservations who are at least 18 years old. And the bag-drop feature at O\u2019Hare is still in a testing phase, meaning agents will still check IDs. <\/p>\n

United says it plans to continue rolling out\u00a0Touchless ID to more bag drop counters, security checkpoints, and boarding gates in the future. <\/p>\n

The carrier\u2019s move to touchless follows Delta Air Lines, which has already deployed similar technology at its hubs in Atlanta, Detroit and New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia international airports. <\/p>\n

According to The Points Guy travel website managing editor Clint Henderson, there are already dedicated check-in lanes for touchless at these airports for Delta flyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agents working at the TSA PreCheck and Clear lines told me to use a new special lane for biometrics that allowed me to skip ahead of both the regular PreCheck and the separate Clear lanes,\u201d Henderson said in a TPG post. \u201cAfter one minute, the TSA agent waved me over. I simply showed my face in front of a camera, and the agent told me to go ahead to the screening machines. There was no wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November, the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA\u2019s parent agency, announced it is hoping to roll out an entirely \u2018self-service\u2019 screening option that bypasses TSA agents entirely. This involves the use \u2018pods\u2019 that combine facial screening and baggage scanning; currently, this program is being tested at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

On its website, TSA says it does not store images captured by facial recognition technology \u2018except for a limited period of time for testing and evaluation purposes.\u2019 The agency says it retains personal identifying information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the specified purposes of its biometric technology pilots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re a TSA PreCheck member traveling on United Airlines via Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare or Los Angeles international airports, life just got a bit easier. United recently updated its website to show that \u2018Touchless ID\u2019 technology, which lets users go through security just by scanning their face and without having to show a physical ID or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}