Next time check-in with your mobile phone

Damian Koh | Oct 12, 2007

By 2010, passengers can toss away their paper tickets at airport check-ins. If this takes off, Associated Press reports that major airlines will be adopting a new mobile phone check-in system that would speed up processes and at the same time reduce costs. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the industry is expected to save more than US$500 million annually after paper tickets are phased out.

Users will need to register their mobile phone number with the airline at the time of ticket booking. They will then receive a text message with an embedded 2D barcode, or instructions to download it, which works as the boarding pass. Currently, users have to either check-in manually at the counter or print out their boarding passes when they do it online.

Picture credit: Singapore Airlines

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