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Bookings under the sale will open from Thursday and will end at 23:59 pm on August 20

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Soon you will need to provide an identity card whilebuying an air ticket. The civil aviation ministry will soon form regulations which would make it mandatory for a passenger to provide his identity number while booking a flight. Air travellers are already required to carry a copy of their identity while entering an airport. Now, a digital unique identification such as Aadhaar, PAN (Permanent Account Number), Passport Number is being proposed for air passengers, Minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha said. This is part of the initiatives that the ministry is undertaking to use technology in order to make airport check in seamless and formation of a no fly list. The ministry had conceptualized the idea of a no fly list after a Shiv Sena MP hit an Air India MP on board leading to all airlines boycotting him. The ministry has also set up a digital traveller working group to provide suggestions on implementing the scheme.Within 30 days, the group would come out with a white ...

Ministry set up digital traveller working group to provide suggestions on implementing the scheme