The aviation ministry has asked the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to develop a protocol for flyers to get bar-coded boarding cards on their phones with which they can proceed for security checks.

Passengers are now allowed to enter airports by showing the electronic tickets on their phones instead of hard copies of the same. E-boarding cards will take the mobile technology initiative forward. Airlines will email boarding cards to passengers once they check-in online or telephonically.

"The concept has been cleared. There is only one hitch: During security check, passengers' mobile phones pass through X-ray machines and they get them back after they are cleared. At present, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) stamp boarding passes after frisking passengers and this stamp is seen before a flyer is allowed to get on a plane. So we have to work on the issue of allowing mobile phones with passengers during security check so that CISF personnel can see the card, doing away with the practice of stamping cards," said an official who is working on the project.

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