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How to link your Aadhaar number with flight ticket for faster airport entry

Aadhaar number must be entered while booking the flight ticket

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Aadhaar project cannot survive without undermining and overriding the rights of the people. Photo: Reuters

Surbhi Gloria Singh New Delhi
Soon, domestic flyers will have the option to link their Aadhaar number to air tickets for faster airport entry. Air passengers flying out of Kolkata, Ahmebadad and Vijayawada can avail Aadhaar-based seamless travel experience from 2018 under Modi government's 'digi yatra' programme. Airports Authority of India (AAI) has plans to implement the programme in other airports too.

Similar to marquee airports such as Schiphol (Amsterdam), Brisbane and Hamad (Doha), travellers could soon enter Indian airports without flashing their identity cards and clear the check-in process through fingerprints and iris scan.

AAI chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra told TOI: "Under the Aadhaar-based system,