Airports

Five International Airports With Innovations We Love

Inside the new Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Photographer: Hufton + Crow

Los Angeles’s LAX airport is overhauling its facilities to the tune of $14 billion. As holiday travel season approaches, we look at are some cutting-edge features that America’s busiest airport by origin could borrow from its new and recently updated peers around the world.

The two-month-old Zaha Hadid-designed Beijing Daxing International Airport has a partnership with Huawei Technologies Co., which provides facial recognition technology so travelers can check luggage, go through security, and board the plane without ever showing ID.