Houston’s Continental Airlines To Debut Cell Phone Flight Check-In
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As the populations of the world continue to travel freely and technology keeps getting better, it comes as no surprise that airlines are looking to streamline their check-in procedures.
Continental Airlines in Houston will be the first airline to support check-in via a cell phone or other mobile device, such as a PDA.
The three-month pilot program involves technology using encrypted bar codes on mobile device screens, something not being used anywhere else in the world, TSA official Melvin Carraway said.
“We have been in favor of this for a long time and had fairly consistent dialogue with TSA on our desire to do this,” said Mark Bergsrud, a senior vice president for Houston-based Continental. “We were ready technically and we are pretty nimble with our ability to develop software and test it.”
Carraway said the TSA, which has had a problem with people trying to use fraudulent paper boarding passes in the past, is confident the technology can’t be cracked.
This could ultimately do away with the need for paper documents in order to board a plane. Photo identification such as driver’s license will still be required.
If the plan goes smoothly, this could be added to other airlines in just a few months.
Not only could this make flight check-in more expedient, it could also dramatically cut the need to kill trees for paper passes. Only time will tell if it’s effective or not..
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