Birmingham and East Midlands airports first for face-match e-gates
Airlines will supply passport photo galleries, and Border Force says queues could shrink by 25 per cent
On the day you fly home, your airline will soon be handing Border Force your passport photo. 📸
It's how the new e-gates will work. Each airline supplies a gallery of photos of Brits returning that day, your face is scanned at the gate, and it opens once there's a match. No passport scan needed. Birmingham and East Midlands are first, in the coming weeks.
Border Force says it could cut times by 25 per cent. That figure hasn't been independently confirmed.
Full story: Metro
