Now, keep boarding pass in full

Airlines in India will no longer retain a portion of your boarding pass before you enter a plane, according to an order issued by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security on Wednesday.

“An aviation security order was issued on Wednesday doing away with the practice,” Mr. Choubey said at the sidelines of an event here. He said the policy of retaining a portion of the boarding pass before entering the plane was enforced in 1982 when there was “no digitisation.”

The practice ensured that all passengers who had checked in at the airport finally boarded the plane.

“The airlines can maintain the passenger records in digital form,” the Civil Aviation secretary said.

Paperless travel soon

The move also comes at a time when the Centre is looking to introduce digital boarding passes at airports. Minister of State Jayant Sinha said last week that the government was working on a ‘DigiYatra’ plan to allow paperless travel for air passengers.

“The whole experience would be completely digital so that you wouldn’t need any paper and you would be able to book your car to the airport, get into the airport, get a digital boarding pass, board your aircraft, take a car way back and do all of that just with your mobile phone,” he had said, outlining the plan.