No matter how organized you are, traveling means having your hands full. Handbag, ID proof, luggage, coffee, we wish we looked more like Maa Durga. There might be one less item occupying space between your fingers. If you’re flying to Bangalore or Hyderabad from Delhi, you’ll love us for breaking the news to you. Shed a tear and bid farewell to boarding passes, you may never see them again.
What is it
Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad airports may no longer need boarding passes! Just think how much paper we would save! Biometric-based boarding system is all the rage. Trial runs have already begun. The ultimate goal is to have an end to end paperless process. This will reduce queues, time, hassle and environmental damage. Now you can hold your drink in one hand and phone in the other. No, that’s irresponsible, don’t do that, friends. The trial runs are being put in place in more and more cities slowly. Vistara even has an offer to partake in futuristic technology just by registering at their kiosk in Delhi airport’s T3.
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How it works
Airport security will rely on facial recognition technology instead of paper documents for ID proof. You just take two minutes to register and head straight to your flight. Paper boarding passes, paper tags for hand luggage, the infamous boarding passes stamp and paper forms for travelling abroad are all things obsolete. All of these procedures will halt saving travellers a lot of time and energy. Now we can just hop on. The programme is part of the civil aviation ministry’s DigiYatra policy. Delhi really is going digital with Wi-Fi, CCTV, now this. We’re not complaining. In fact, we’re thrilled. Who wants to go through complicated procedures before exciting holidays? Any rebate is great.
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India is on a mission to revamp its airports to ease travelling and we want to thank whoever’s responsible. Cheers to you ma’am. Immersive gardens, mid-air phone calls and paperless pampering are all being talked about. It’s just the motivation we needed to make our next trip. Let’s face it, boarding passes are nothing but a waste of time and trees. We can’t wait for this trial run to meet massive success. The next time we’re boarding a flight, we won’t have to run back to get a stamp we forgot. We’ll only be running in one direction, towards vacay feels!
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