Delta Trialing Cellphone Boarding Passes at LaGuardia
Welcome to the future that should have been here years ago. Why airlines haven’t been doing this for years is beyond us but kudos to those who have finally started to get moving. Delta is by no means the first airline to play with the idea of mobiles to be used as boarding passes, but it has caught on. Starting with domestic flights at LaGuardia, Delta’s handset boarding pass trial is already launched and we can only hope that the practice spreads sooner rather than later. Delta passengers can now go to the company’s website on their mobile devices and download a digital boarding pass directly. The TSA can then scan the digital bar codes contained within the passes and no physical printout is required. The concept is forward-thinking in several respects. First of all, it makes travel easier; there is no longer a need need to print anything out and no more frantic searching through carry ons to find misplaced documentation. Secondly, it’s good for the environment of course. Digital passes mean less paper being printed and wasted. Honestly, who recycles their boarding passes? Good stuff Delta, now if we can only work on those delays…
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With mobile screen resolutions the way they are this should be a no brainer. I ditto the kudos. Now…where are all the other airlines at?
Whats with the antique BB?
My thoughts exactly, poor guy….. Company must be on a tight budget picking up older series black berry. -.-
that or he’s holding out for the Bold <3
Or he’s going for the retro/old-school/throwback/nonconformist look, either that or he works at my company because that’s what we use :\
Hey a lot of the corporate types still carry on with the old BB, but the problem is what if your BB crashes or somethings happens what are you going to do then.
I actually tried this with Air Canada on my last flight and it didn’t work. The link or text message never arrived to my bb curve and still hasn’t to this day. I had to print my boarding pass the old way to present to security. I’m all for using technology, but if it slows me down like this, forget it.
Both Canadian airlines (Air Canada and WestJet) have been doing this since last year.
You also get a boarding pass number which can be keyed in manually if you can’t pull up the image or the scanner can’t read it.
I’m sure you can still get it at the check-in booth. Afterall, it’s all on the same database.
I think it’s interesting that everyone’s commenting on how old his 7290 is because most everyone with a Blackberry I see doesn’t have the current 81xx, 83xx, and 88xx generation models but rather the 87xx series.
Air Canada has been doing this for over a year already in almost all Canadian Airports.
go grn!
I work as PDA tech support for T-Mobile and to tell you the truth i’d say 50% of my business calls are for 8700- older devices. Its funny too because the end users are always asking about the new Blackberrys. LOL
Anything to get through LaGuardia faster, I’m all for it.
Let’s hope the staff at LaG. are up to speed. I can just see me flashing the BB, and someone saying “Nice try Sir, but boarding pass please.”
i think they already shoed this on fox news 3 months ago