A US company which has developed a high-security airline boarding system is to make Bahrain its regional base, reported the Gulf Daily on Monday.
Minnesota-based Laser Data Command (LDC) chairman and chief executive officer John Barclay has been having talks over the last few days with Bahrain Airport Services (BAS), the health ministry and business organizations.
He said Sunday that he would soon open his Middle East regional office in Bahrain to promote the PassPro system, the paper cited him as saying.
“I have found the right business environment in Bahrain,” Barclay told the paper.
“The openness and progressive thinking of the Bahraini authorities and encouraging responses from airline and government sources have motivated us to make Bahrain the base of our regional operations.”
He said PassPro was a fast, convenient passenger identity boarding and bag match system, which could meet increased security requirements.
PassPro accelerates the typical passenger initial check-in by instantly acquiring the passengers video image and identification and compressing them into a two-dimensional bar code that is printed on the boarding pass, said Barclay.
When the boarding pass is scanned at the jetway, the passengers color image appears from the 2-D bar code itself on the screen to confirm right to board.
Also at check-in, a bag image is similarly captured for matching to the passengers ID to accelerate recognition of the bag for non-board retrieval or lost bag identification, he said – Albawaba.com
