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.
Mr. Tikvesa prints out an extra boarding pass for the passenger's connecting flight so he can scan them into Delta's computer system once the passenger is on board.
"There are various means of delivering passenger safety instructions and abandon ship instructions, but we believe ... the existing international requirement that we provide this instruction within 24 hours can be bettered by doing it immediately upon (passenger) boarding, " said Michael Crye, executive vice president of Cruise Lines International Association.
People handling airfreight are aware of valuable consignments because every cargo shipment carries a waybill, which is similar to a passenger's boarding pass.
"Given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding, " the company said.
To speed up the check-in process, it also has service agents roam the passenger lines with tiny printers that spew out boarding passes.
"I'd spend millions of dollars on the ground because you make the passenger happy... at check in and boarding, " said Mr Kotil.
At the gate, agents can offer passenger the opportunity to check bags and, in return, offer earlier boarding.
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When a passenger steps forward to get on a flight, an agent could hold up the boarding pass and passport in front of their smart glasses, scanning barcodes on the two documents simultaneously.
If a passenger is cleared for Precheck screening, a code is embedded in a traveler's boarding pass.
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