Airline Boarding Pass With Mobile Phones

Technology... technology... life through mobile phones increases. The cell phone becomes another part of everyday life for the traveler, more and more people can be reached with cell phones, and more people are relying on cell phones.

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The idea is instead of the traditional paper boarding passes, passengers will use their mobile phones or PDAs to board an airplane.

During the introduction of this new feature, there are a few minor restrictions. Passengers can list only one person in their reservation and must be traveling on American or American Eagle nonstop or a trip that doesn't involve changing planes, to a domestic destination.

The destination, however, can be anywhere within the 50 United States, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
This is just the beginning, if the tryout proves successful with the TSA, American Airlines will extend this new mobile boarding method to other U.S. airports.

Personally, I hope this will happen with all the airlines. It makes a lot of sense, especially when most cell phones are able to connect to the Internet these days.










American Airlines Introduces Mobile Boarding Passes At Select Airports For Use With Mobile Phones Or PDAs

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Air Canada has been doing this for over 2 years now. Blackberry boarding pass, has a bar code that displays on the LCD that check-in agents can scan. Pretty cool I have to say.