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SERBIAN TOURISTS WILL BE DELIGHTED: This airline allows passengers to BOARD WITHOUT PASSPORT AND TICKET from June 1st!
Russia's largest carrier and Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport are launching a pilot project for biometric passenger identification, the first of its kind in Russian civil aviation.
TL;DR
- Aeroflot and Sheremetyevo airport are launching a pilot project for biometric passenger identification.
- Starting June 1, 2026, passengers on certain Aeroflot flights can board using facial recognition instead of passports and boarding passes.
- The system requires passengers to have their biometric data registered in the Unified Biometric System.
- This initiative is the first of its kind in Russian civil aviation and aims to speed up check-in, security, and boarding.
- Sochi International Airport is also planning to build Russia's first fully biometric terminal.