Chennai: The civil aviation ministry may soon begin a large-scale exercise of profiling all air passengers, officials of the ministry said.
For the first time ever, photographs, biometric details and other information about all passengers will be collected and each passenger will be assigned a unique number. So every time a passenger books a ticket after registering his profile, she would only have to provide her name and the unique number and all her details would be retrieved instantaneously from the system, the official said.
“It is too early to say when the exercise will begin. But a feasibility report will be prepared by the National Informatics Centre in three months to look at the cost and timeframe for the exercise. The report will also work out a system on how this proposal can be executed including whether it will be the airline or the airport operator who will collect the details from the passenger.
03/08/13 Sunitha Sekar/The Hindu
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For the first time ever, photographs, biometric details and other information about all passengers will be collected and each passenger will be assigned a unique number. So every time a passenger books a ticket after registering his profile, she would only have to provide her name and the unique number and all her details would be retrieved instantaneously from the system, the official said.
“It is too early to say when the exercise will begin. But a feasibility report will be prepared by the National Informatics Centre in three months to look at the cost and timeframe for the exercise. The report will also work out a system on how this proposal can be executed including whether it will be the airline or the airport operator who will collect the details from the passenger.
03/08/13 Sunitha Sekar/The Hindu
