Now, with 80 percent of passengers using these self-service options, the next step is electronic boarding passes, which essentially turn the hand-held devices and mobile phones of travelers into their boarding passes.
At least half a dozen airlines in the United States currently allow customers to check in using their mobile devices, including American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest and Alaska.
But so far, Continental is the only carrier in the United States to begin testing the electronic passes, allowing those travelers to pass through security and board the plane without handling a piece of paper. Their boarding pass is an image of an encrypted bar code displayed on the phone's screen, which can be scanned by gate agents and security personnel.'
Travel: Boarding pass on your BlackBerry?
The NYT says it's getting there:
Personally, I think this is great. There's privacy, and there's security. This violates neither. In fact, having my boarding pass on my secure, encrypted PDA sure beats having it on a piece of paper that can be stolen.
I also like the idea that it can be wirelessly updated. I'm in the process of ditching all the wires in my life. I am dropping my DSL and getting a EvDO connection from Sprint on a trial/test basis. In theory, along with a router this should let me carry a wi-fi cloud with me and do live podcasting, audio, photostreams and all kinds of cool things. We'll try it out this weekend at the special event that I'm not talking about until Thursday, Le Loup / Bellman Barker show at the Black Cat on Friday, assuming I get it to work, and the possibly at the Tech Policy Summit next week.
I like the idea of simplifying my connectivity to just the zone around me. "Do you need Wi-Fi?" Nah, I brought my own...
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