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29 March 2024

Air India scam: 600 blank boarding passes

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A man has been arrested at India’s Kolkata airport with 600 blank boarding passes of Air India, according to a report in the Times of India.
The person, identified as SKV, was intercepted at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose airport when he was about to board a Spicejet flight to Port Blair.

His hand baggage was scanned leading to the recovery of the blank AI boarding passes, 600 in total.
The report quotes the airline as suspecting a modus operandi in which blank boarding passes are used by unauthorised agents to generate fake travel records for government employees .

The TOI report speculates that agents, in connivance with passengers, would book an Air India ticket and then cancel it and get a ticket from another airline to the same destination.
Later, the agent would generate the blank boarding pass as a substitute for the passenger to claim reimbursement.