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Business News›Industry›Transportation›Airlines / Aviation›Digi Yatra: Soon, your face will be your boarding card

Digi Yatra: Soon, your face will be your boarding card

​Making flying simpler

​Making flying simpler

Soon, air travellers will be able to enter Indian airports with a facial recognition biometric and can do away with the cumbersome boarding passes.

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​What is it?

​What is it?

Under the government's Digi Yatra initiative, travellers will soon be able to enter airports in the country with facial recognition biometric.

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​Operational

​Operational

The mechanism will be voluntary and will come into force by February 2019.

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​Benefit

​Benefit

Seeking to promote paperless and hassle-free air travel, Prabhu said the initiative would be "forward-looking and futuristic."

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​Suresh Prabhu on new initiative

​Suresh Prabhu on new initiative

For those who choose this, the only way they will be identified at airports will be using facial recognition and biometric capturing.

"Many times people keep complaining that there are so many boarding passes to be stamped – this will eliminate that process," Prabhu said.

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​Other facilities

​Other facilities

Other facilities included receiveing relevant information pertaining to various facilities, protocols, airline timings, queue lengths at airports etc.

The aviation ministry had said that flyers will get real time notifications about congestion and delays to have greater visibility on the next step of journey. They can conveniently navigate through the airport using digital guidance systems, interactive kiosks and augmented reality apps.

Flyers can also get a prompt when their luggage reaches the baggage claim belt and submit grievances, share experiences and provide feedback under the Digi Yatra initiative.

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