SITA: Aviation IT group SITA urges the scaling up of digital passenger ID systems for air travel

It was now time to scale up the use of digital ID systems across the global commercial aviation industry, SITA Senior VP Jeremy Springall has affirmed. (SITA was the aviation industry's specialist IT and related technologies solutions group.) He was reflecting on the call last week by the global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association, made at the annual Sydney Leaders Week conference in Australia, for the rapid adoption of these systems, worldwide. He pointed out that biometric and digital technologies were greatly improving the travel experience for everyone, by way of such conveniences as digital pre-clearance to biometric verification. This was making travel faster, more efficient, but also more secure. But the deployment of such technologies was currently both limited (for example, only for air crews) and fragmented.