India’s very own DigiYatra will soon launch in both regional as well as international languages. The DigiYatra service is currently available at 24 airports in India and the service is expected to expand to 4-5 more airports in the coming months. 

“A pilot project is planned for June 2025 to connect two countries using DigiYatra,” updated Suresh Khadakbhavi, chief executive, DigiYatra Foundation. “This initiative will also allow foreign citizens to use the service,” he further added. 

Speaking at the CAPA (Centre for Aviation) Digital Aviation Summit in New Delhi, Khadakbhavi mentioned that a campaign will be launched to raise awareness about the facility. 

The pilot project will be conducted using foreign passengers who hold electronic passports (e-passports). The e-passports consists an embedded microchip storing biometric data, such as fingerprints or facial recognition, for enhanced security and seamless travel. India is yet to introduce e-passport. Various countries like European Union, Singapore, etc have launched e-passports with a sizable population from these countries holding these passports. Hence DigiYatra team will be performing the pilot project with such countries. 

Going further Khadakbhavi also informed that India will have to develop bilateral agreements with other countries to implement Digi Yatra with those countries. Such countries will then share the passenger data with India and vice versa, before the passenger reaches the immigration counter. 

Currently, about 6.3 million people have enrolled on the Digi Yatra app while everyday about 25,000 to 30,000 people download and use the DigiYatra app. It is estimated that the DigiYatra passenger number count would cross a record 10 million towards the end of this year. 

DigiYatra is slowly but gradually gaining popularity across all sections of the passengers – young and old alike due to its efficiency, seamless security check-in and paperless travel leading to faster airport transit for passengers. 

Passengers normally spend over an hour at the airport waiting for their flights, to add to these woes, the wait time can be longer for transit passengers or delayed or cancelled flights. DigiYatra aims to make the time spend by passengers during baggage checks, security checks at airport entries and all check-points thereafter absolutely seamless. With DigiYatra your face becomes your boarding pass and you can effortlessly just walk-off all security check-points. 

Of lately certain concerns were raised about passenger data privacy. Explaining their stance, DigiYatra have clarified time and again that the app is most user-friendly and safe apps as it is designed to protect user data, as there is no central storage of passenger's Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. All the passengers' data is encrypted and stored in the wallet of their smartphone. When a user uninstalls the app, their travel history and credentials are automatically deleted. When a user shares their ID credentials and boarding pass with the origin airport, the airport deletes the data from its systems within 24 hours of the flight's departure.
Clarifying his stance on security of the app, Khadakbhavi and his team are planning to run a social media campaign to assure passengers data is not stored. 

Digi Yatra is managed by a not-for-profit entity and supported Airports Authority of India (AAI), and major airports like Cochin, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.