‘Over 1.6 lakh air travellers have taken benefit of Digi Yatra’

More air travellers have began utilizing the Digi Yatra app as over 1.6 lakh passengers have taken benefit of the cell utility for seamless airport entry, an official mentioned on Thursday.

Digi Yatra is being carried out throughout airports in a phased method. In the primary section, it was launched by Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on December 1, 2022 at Delhi, Bengaluru, and Varanasi airports, a press release famous.

The implementation of Digi Yatra beneath section I can be deliberate at Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada, and Hyderabad airports by March 2023.

According to the officers of the Civil Aviation Ministry, the overall quantity of passengers who have used the Digi Yatra course of on the airports from December 1, 2022 to February 14, 2023 is 1.6 lakh+.

The complete app consumer base ofDigi Yatraon the Android Play Store and iOS Apple App Store is over 4 lakh.

Officials mentioned that Digi Yatra is a biometric boarding system utilizing Facial Recognition Technology to offer a seamless and hassle-free expertise for passengers at airports.

It enhances passenger expertise by eliminating the necessity for verification of tickets and IDs at a number of touchpoints and gives higher throughput by means of current infrastructure utilizing a Digital Framework.

Digi Yatra is a voluntary facility.

In the Digi Yatra course of, there isn’t any central storage of passengers’ Personally Identifiable Information information.

All the passenger’s information is encrypted and saved within the pockets of the passenger’s smartphone and shared just for a restricted time period with the airport of journey origin the place the passenger’s Digi Yatra ID must be validated.

The information is purged from the system inside 24 hours of the flight.

To give broad publicity to Digi Yatra, airportoperators and airline operators are doing in-flight bulletins, publicity by means of boarding passes, offering assist desk help and displaying banners and movies and so on., on the airports.

Publicity can be being accomplished by means of social media.

Airports Authority of India (AAI) has awarded the work for the implementation of the Biometric Boarding System at Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada and Varanasi airports.

(With inputs from IANS)