Soon, your face would be enough to enter airports, board flights

Soon, you won't need any paper including flight tickets, ID proof or boarding pass to enter into airports and take domestic flights. The government has notified rules for 'digi yatra' (DY) project under which air travellers can get paperless entry into airports for domestic flight through biometric authentication of facial recognition. However, international travelers have been left out of this service.

Initially, government plans to roll out this service at two airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore, and later be extended to Varanasi, Kolkata, Pune and Vijaywada in the next one to three months.

Passengers can avail the service on the voluntary basis, but current system of showing paper tickets and ID cards will also continue at all airports for those who do not wish to participate in the voluntary digi yatra service.


Here is how it works and ways to avail the service:
* To avail the service, a passenger will need to generate a unique DY ID number using the aviation ministry's portal.

* You can create unique DY ID using any government issued I-cards like Aadhaar, driving licence, voter card etc.

*After registration, you would get a unique ID on booking the tickets

* Airline would share the passenger data and the ID with the airport at least six hours before the flight

* Passenger's travel details like flight number will automatically be known at e-gates.

* DY ID created will be authenticated during the first travel by the passenger at the airport. In the authentication process, the ID of the passenger will be verified and validated by an authorised security officer and activate the DY ID

* The system will also provide real-time notification about flight delays and congestion