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CISF suggests removal of boarding pass stamping at airports

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has reportedly suggested a pilot test at the Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru airports for flyers to not have to get their boarding passes stamped during the process of security check.

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The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has reportedly suggested a pilot test at the Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru airports for flyers to not have to get their boarding passes stamped during the process of security check. According to a report published in the Times of India, CISF has written to the mentioned airports to quickly take note of the suggestion. The report suggests that the Hyderabad airport has already began work on the same. 

CISF's Head of Airport Security, MA Ganapathy, on July 18 wrote to the CEOs of all three airports to stop the stamping of boarding passes of domestic flyers. The system is already available at the Hyderabad airport.

It is to be noted that the suggestion has been only for domestic flyers. 

With this move, the CISF wants to eliminate the process of stamping boarding cards on a permanent basis. To do so, security personnel will frisk passengers at the pre-embarkation security check (PESC) area, which will also have HD CCTV cameras that will capture clear pictures of flyers.

To further make the suggestion a success, there will be e-gate readers where passengers will have to scan the bar code on their boarding pass. Once the details are authenticated with the airline's database, passengers will be allowed through the gate one person at a time.

According to the publication, the project will be carried out at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) Terminal 2 for domestic passengers of Air India, Jet Airways and Vistara.

Meanwhile, in another good news, flyers don't need to wait in long queues for checking in and getting your boarding pass for travelling from Mumbai airport as Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) on Wednesday said, it has extended its check-in facility to three hotels within airport and six hotels outside airport from where passengers can check-in along with printing their boarding passes before leaving the hotel lobby.

However, one can check-in and has his or her luggage tagged at hotel by having their boarding passes but can't check-in luggage at hotel, and will have to do the same at the airport.

The facility was recently introduced to give more facilities to passengers for ensuring hassle-free travel experience. The passenger traffic at Mumbai airport has doubled in the past 12 years. Also the number of check-in counters have increased from around 250 to more than 315.

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