Air travel as we know it is about to change! Checking in for flights and boarding passes are about to be a thing of the past, with drastically new rules for air travel set to be implemented in the next two to three years. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the UN body responsible for policy, new technology is about to streamline how we fly, but what does this mean for the passenger? Air travel as we know it is about to change! Pic: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie This means that travelers would be asked to upload their passport to their phones and pass departure gates by having their face scanned. It’s as simple as that. This would be part of a ‘digital travel credential’ to be introduced by the ICAO, according to The Times. After a flight is booked, a passenger would download a ‘journey pass’, foregoing the need to check in and get a boarding pass. According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the UN body responsible for policy, new technology is about to streamline how we fly, but what does this mean for the passenger? Pic: Getty. Once you get to the airport, facial recognition scanners would do the rest, right before you proceed to a bag drop (if you have hold luggage) and then on to security. Valérie Viale, the director of product management at Amadeus, a travel technology company, told the Times that the changes were ‘the biggest in 50 years’. ‘The last upgrade of great scale was the adoption of e-ticketing in the early 2000s,’ she added. ‘The industry has now decided it’s time to upgrade to modern systems that are more like what Amazon would use.’ Do you think this will streamline travel as we know it? Or do you prefer the traditional route?