Domestic flyers will soon be able to skip
checkin queues at airports and board the aircraft by simply flashing their
smartphones.
The aviation ministry
has asked the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security to develop a system for flyers
to get bar-coded boarding cards on their phones
with which they can go for security checks.
with which they can go for security checks.
“The concept has
been cleared. There is only one hitch: during security check, passengers’
mobiles pass through X-ray machines and they get them back after they are
cleared,” said an official working on the project. The process of stamping
would also have to go, he added.
Boarding pass will be
emailed after online check-in
At present, Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF) stamp boarding passes after frisking
passengers and this stamp is seen before a flyer is allowed to get on a plane.
So we have to work on the issue of allowing mobile phones with passengers
during security check so that CISF personnel can see the card, doing away with
the practice of stamping cards,” said an official who is working on the
project. Passengers are now allowed to enter airports by showing the electronic
tickets on their phones instead of hard copies of the same. E-boarding cards
will take the mobile technology initiative forward. Source: TOI
