Here is good news for air travellers and it sounds like fiction but it is true that they don’t need to carry documents like identity proof and air tickets along with them to board a plane as passenger’ thumb screening soon will be all documentation required to enter airports.
Presently, the air travellers have to show their air ticket and a valid identity card to enter airports. In this regard, the aviation ministry has already started work on the first part and Hyderabad airport has successfully completed a pilot project on using biometric identification for allowing entry into the terminal there.
“We are examining the technical feasibility of asking people to give their Aadhar card numbers at the time of booking tickets. At airports, they can press their thumb for biometric identification; enter terminals and board domestic flights (for international passports will be needed),” a senior aviation ministry official told TOI.
“Over a billion (100 crore) Aadhar cards have been issued so far. At the time of issuing these cards, biometrics, fingerprints and iris scans, are taken and fed into a national digital registry,” he added.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra said the Hyderabad Airport has done a pilot project under the aegis of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and aviation secretary R N Choubey had asked all airport operators, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and AAI, to see that.
