TravelSky, the state-owned Chinese aviation IT provider, supplies face-recognition security and boarding systems and AI operations platforms to Chinese airports.
Founded in 2000 and based in Beijing, it co-developed Lanzhou's (LHW) full-journey facial recognition and runs face-recognition security at Harbin (HRB), Jieyang Chaoshan (SWA) and Urumqi (URC). At Urumqi it also has an AI platform for stand allocation, turnaround vision and a digital twin in limited use.
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Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport · TravelSky
In November 2018 CAAC News reported six new self check-in kiosks at Jieyang with cameras for face capture, and said self-service security and boarding would follow. This is reported and has not been verified.
Ürümqi Tianshan · TravelSky
TravelSky delivered a smart-airport suite for Ürümqi Tianshan's new north terminal, which began trial operation on 17 April 2025, CAAC News reported on 18 April 2025.
The suite includes automatic load planning, AI quality control with human recheck in security screening, an AI-based flight-delay management system and 2D/3D digital-twin models.
China Daily Xinjiang: one month of Urumqi Tianshan operations
Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport · TravelSky
Passengers at Lanzhou Zhongchuan's Terminal 3, which opened on 20 March 2025, can use their face from check-in through security to boarding. CAAC News reported in March 2025 that the terminal has 63 security lanes and 85 self-boarding units.
By September 2025 the average security check took under three minutes, about 40% faster than conventional lanes, CAAC News reported on 21 September.
A year after opening, China Gansu Net said AI and face recognition run across check-in, security and boarding, with 26 self-service verification gates and verification in under five seconds.
Ürümqi Tianshan · TravelSky
Ürümqi airport put 37 face-recognition self-service security verification gates into use in June 2020, cutting verification from 25 seconds to under 8 seconds per passenger, CAAC News reported in August 2022. The airport also uses camera face capture to locate late passengers for boarding calls.
Its north terminal, opened on 17 April 2025, added two-way face-recognition boarding gates.
Harbin Taiping · TravelSky
Self-service verification gates went into use at Harbin Taiping's security checkpoint on 1 April 2020. Capital Airports Holding said the four gates take six to eight seconds per passenger.
More followed in May 2021. Four smart lanes opened in the B1 area of Terminal 2, using face recognition, with RFID tags tying each passenger's hand baggage to their biometric record, and peak throughput rose from about 120 to about 220 passengers an hour, more than 80%, The Paper reported on 2 May 2021.
Then there is Xiaobing. CRI Online described the inquiry robot on 14 October 2019 as TravelSky Mobile Technology's latest AI product, able to answer flight-status questions and understand the Northeastern dialect.
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