The new technology allows Air France passengers to skip the boarding-pass stage of the airport processes.
Continental Airlines Inc. said earlier this week that it was expanding its mobile boarding-pass service to Frankfurt Airport, becoming the first American carrier to offer paperless boarding passes outside the U.S. The service allows customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, Continental said.
We'll take the approach if it saves time snagging an old-fashioned boarding pass or some concert tickets.
Nigerian who managed to bypass security and fly across the U.S. with a day-old boarding pass, I got to thinking about boarding pass security and what the TSA can do about it if they would just use their imagination.
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There are still four layers of security: presentation of valid government ID, boarding pass, x-ray inspection of carryon luggage, and passing through a magnetometer for the presence of metal.
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My airline allowed me to print out a boarding pass and bypass check-in because I had no bags to check.
Heading through Barcelona airport on the way home, I flashed the virtual boarding pass on my non-NFC phone and went through without showing any physical document - except a passport.
In addition to letting users dedicate different tasks to different screens, Mr Martynov suggested users might want to display important information such as an airline boarding pass or a map on the e-ink screen to take advantage of the fact that the technology only uses power to refresh - and not maintain - its image.
If you think about it, printing out a boarding pass is almost as silly as printing out an e-mail.
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In addition, passengers must be prepared to present a local, state, or federal government-issued identification card at the boarding gate, along with the boarding pass.
The tours of Temple Square are run with small vans departing and returning from each terminal from 11AM- 5:30 PM and are free to anyone holding a boarding pass or ticket.
As you're swiping your boarding pass ( or smartphone), the machine also scans it for particle-sized traces of explosive materials and sends the all-clear or no-go in less than two seconds.
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