Paper-less flight tickets likely soon

Bar-coded boarding passes eliminate the need for a paper ticket, ease security clearance and world over, 83% of all boarding passes are 2-D bar coded.
No wonder then that International Air Transport Association (IATA) is pushing Indian airports and airlines to also fall in line and begin investing in this procedure.
Already, the new airports of Hyderabad and Bangalore are 100% compliant in issuing bar-coded boarding passes and among the airlines, Kingfisher is also fully compliant. Eric Leopold, project manager for BCBP project at IATA, pointed out that Jet Airways is working on it. Delhi and Mumbai international airports are also beginning to equip themselves with this facility.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) — the two organisations who will decide on the security implications and implementation of this process at all airports — still appear lukewarm to the move. This despite an AAI project, which will equip 13 non-metro airports to issue such boarding passes. It’s a part of the AAI’s airport modernisation drive.
21/01/10 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jan 2010, New Jan 2010