Mobile phone to replace airline boarding pass soon

Bangalore: Soon mobile phones would replace the physical airline ticket. Passengers would just be required to flash their mobile phone and gain access to the terminal building and speedily finish boarding procedures thereafter. For the airports, it would mean efficient boarding and handling more number of passengers.
Siemens Airport Systems Laboratory in Bangalore is working out a technology which would replace the physical boarding pass.
“This is different from the facility being offered by some travel portals and airlines currently. When you book a ticket, the airline sends you information like PNR number, etc as an SMS. This still means that you need to show it at the airline counter and take a print out. However, this new technology works just like Web check-in, where you can check-in, select your seat through the mobile phone and then you receive a 2D Bar Code which would replace the boarding pass. You could flash it at the airports where a reader validates it and so wherever required passenger will use this bar code,” Mr Ravi Shankar, Head of Aviation Systems, Siemens Information Systems Ltd, told Business Line.
14/03/08 Shubhra Tandon/Business Line

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Categories: Airports Mar 2008, New Mar 2008