The airline Spirit Airlines takes advantage of the coronavirus situation to promote the use of biometric data in order to speed up procedures and avoid human interaction.

The coronavirus crisis is causing major problems in several industries, but also accelerating others . Everything that refers to individual monitoring has seen growth in recent months and one of the examples is the use of facial recognition technology in different environments . Among those already known, one that seems closer every day is the airports.
Some Spanish airports already have similar technology installed and have been testing it for some time, but companies in other countries are beginning to use it in a more advanced way, directly for access procedures .

Spirit Airlines has announced that it has installed machines that allow recognition through biometric data at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. This is a first step in completely eliminating human interaction .
The idea is that in the future it will be possible to carry out even the check-in of the suitcases and thus further streamline the procedures and reduce the usual queues. The airline thinks that " Limiting points of contact and unnecessary face-to-face interactions will change the way airports operate ," according to Techcrunch's statements .

Depending on the times that the company manages, it reduces the times in front of the windows by at least 70 seconds per person , although there is a debate about whether these services, which were planned for a long time, are used to eliminate employment at airports.

Whether we like it or not, as with supermarket self-checkout machines, every day we are going to see more technology of this type in airports and in our day-to-day lives, but there are still many debates to overcome about its privacy and efficiency .