Pune: A seamless check-in awaits flyers at the city airport with the authorities ready to roll out the biometric boarding system from April.
The system will enhance passenger movement at the airport through facial recognition under the civil aviation ministry’s DigiYatra programme.
The document of the ministry’s “Vision 2040”, which was unveiled on Tuesday at the inauguration of the two-day Global Aviation Summit in Mumbai, states that the pilot implementation of the project will be carried out at the Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports by February-end.
“The project will be rolled out at the Pune, Kolkata, Varanasi and Vijayawada airports by April. Preparations are on and we are expecting a trial run before the actual launch of the facility. We will, however, not stop the practice in place for entering the airport and going through the security checks,” an airport official told TOI.
The system will be similar during the security check. There will be no need of showing and stamping boarding passes after frisking. The boarding passes and flight details of the flyers registered in the facial recognition system would also be integrated.
“The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has given its in-principle nod to the project,” another airport official said.
16/01/19 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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The system will enhance passenger movement at the airport through facial recognition under the civil aviation ministry’s DigiYatra programme.
The document of the ministry’s “Vision 2040”, which was unveiled on Tuesday at the inauguration of the two-day Global Aviation Summit in Mumbai, states that the pilot implementation of the project will be carried out at the Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports by February-end.
“The project will be rolled out at the Pune, Kolkata, Varanasi and Vijayawada airports by April. Preparations are on and we are expecting a trial run before the actual launch of the facility. We will, however, not stop the practice in place for entering the airport and going through the security checks,” an airport official told TOI.
The system will be similar during the security check. There will be no need of showing and stamping boarding passes after frisking. The boarding passes and flight details of the flyers registered in the facial recognition system would also be integrated.
“The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has given its in-principle nod to the project,” another airport official said.
16/01/19 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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