Govt. plans to make air travel a paperless affair using Aadhaar and mobile phones

Govt. plans to make air travel a paperless affair using Aadhaar and mobile phones

New Delhi: In its attempt to minimise paperwork for air travel, the government is looking to roll out a digital system for airport entry and boarding flights using a flier's Aadhaar number and mobile phone.

Under the proposed "digi yatra" initiative, the civil aviation ministry is looking to make "boarding pass and security check-in" digital. Minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha on Friday said the ministry is working on the initiative to ensure the whole air travel experience is completely digital.

"Your payment is digital, your boarding and security interactions are digital.That is the digi yatra concept we are working on," he noted. According to Sinha, under the initiative, there will be no need for any paper and the traveller will be securely identified through Aadhaar number, passport or other documents.