{"id":362564,"date":"2020-07-13T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362564"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:38:02","slug":"airports-aim-to-go-touchless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airports-aim-to-go-touchless\/","title":{"rendered":"Airports aim to go touchless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Covid-19 ravaging the aviation industry, airlines and airports worldwide are reining in costs and halting new spending, except in one area: reassuring pandemic-wary passengers about travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever the new normal it\u2019s going to be more and more around self-service,\u201d Sean Donohue, chief executive of Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport (DFW), told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The airport is working with American Airlines \u2014 whose home base is DFW \u2014 to roll out a self-check-in for luggage, and all of its restrooms will be entirely touchless by the end of July with technology developed by Infax Inc. They will have hands-free sinks, soap, flushing toilets, and paper towel dispensers, which will be equipped with sensors to alert workers when supplies are low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Covid-19 ravaging the aviation industry, airlines and airports worldwide are reining in costs and halting new spending, except in one area: reassuring pandemic-wary passengers about travel. \u201cWhatever the new normal it\u2019s going to be more and more around self-service,\u201d Sean Donohue, chief executive of Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport (DFW), told Reuters in an interview. The airport is working with American Airlines \u2014 whose home base is DFW \u2014 to roll out a self-check-in for luggage, and all of its restrooms will be entirely touchless by the end of July with technology developed by Infax Inc. They will have hands-free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}