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The legal requirement for passports and boarding cards to be checked by airline officials before boarding remains, but miSense passengers are given priority.
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Among the cool new features, iPhone 5 will come with a new Maps app with Siri-powered turn-by-turn directions and a Passport app that will store digital versions of your affinity cards, boarding passes, tickets, coupons and, eventually credit and debit cards, so you can get on a plane or into a stadium or pay for a Starbucks coffee by flashing a bar code on the phone.
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Many airlines also reward holders of their credit cards with early boarding.
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Passbook, recently introduced with Apple's iOS6, allows users to keep boarding passes, movie tickets, coupons, loyalty cards and more in one place.
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Google Wallet will start with offers, loyalty and gift cards but some day items like receipts, boarding passes and tickets will all be seamlessly synced to your Google Wallet.
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Delta does not read the letter sequence on Nexus cards, so the system rejected me and would not issue a boarding pass.
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When a traveller enters an airport with one of these smart cards, sensors read the passenger's card and automatically send a gate number and electronic boarding pass to the passenger's smartphone.
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Google Now identifies these types of e-mails and turns them into cards, so you can track a package you're waiting for or use your phone as a boarding pass at the airport.
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