Mumbai airport stops stamping boarding passes

Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) has stopped physical stamping of boarding passes by security personnel for domestic passengers. Passengers travelling within the country from Terminal 2 can authenticate their boarding pass at the pre-embarkation security check points by scanning its barcode or QR code with their mobile phones at the e-gates reader, using Live Passenger Dataset.

This makes the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport the first in the country to introduce the latest technology, proposed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

This authentication will eliminate the responsibility of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel to stamp boarding passes., which will save time, provide a ‘harmonious experience’ to passengers, and improve the overall throughput of the security check procedure.

The move by the Mumbai airport is in line with the government’s Digi Yatra initiative, which aims to make ticket booking, airport entry and boarding pass security check-in digital. Digi Yatra also enables facial recognition technology for passengers to enter airports and promote paperless and hassle-free air travel. Under this scheme, passengers will be asked for one-time verification at the departure airport, while travelling for the first time using a valid identity proof. After verification, facial recognition biometric will be captured and stored in the Digi Yatra ID.