The Future of Airline Check-in: Cellphone-as-Ticket Technology

Posted by Mike Richard on October 17, 2007
Filed under: Gear, Sidelines

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In a recent move that could save the airline industry half a billion dollars annually, the International Air Transport Association announced that it has successfully coaxed all of its 240 constituent airlines to move forward with “cellphone-as-ticket” technology.

The International Herald Tribune is reporting that:

The formats permit a passenger to register a phone during booking to receive a text message containing a bar code that becomes a boarding pass. The bar code can then be read directly from the phone’s screen.

If this is half as convenient as it sounds, travelers are looking at lightning fast check-ins at the airport. Not to mention, it’s Minority Report cool!

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Joyangel123
October 18th, 2007
7:52 am

This is very cool making checking in more user friendly. I hope this really takes off. Maybe soon everything can be done just by clicking a button on your cell phone. This sounds like the future is here.

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