chicagotribune.com - 11/13/2008
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Forget e-tickets. Going paperless is the next wrinkle in air travel as American Airlines tests new mobile boarding passes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Travelers on American can flash a bar code on their cell phone screens to board their flights and get through security checkpoints ...
aa.com - 11/14/2008
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aa.com —
How to use the new Mobile Boarding Pass
Check in on AA.com (or AA.com Mobile) . Choose...
"Email for use on Cell Phone or other Mobile Device" option and include the e-mail address for your web-enabled mobile phone and/or mobile device. Check your email ...
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Introducing Mobile Boarding Passes
mobilitysite.com - 11/14/2008
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mobilitysite.com —
It’s a small market initially, but it could
lead to the future of boarding passes as well...
as other ideas that could spawn from this idea. Right now, its only Chicago O’Hare, LAX, and Santa Ana John Wayne airports that are doing this, but ...
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Mobility in Action - American Airlines Mobile Boarding
gizmodo.com - 11/17/2008
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gizmodo.com —
Chicago's O'Hare airport, the second busiest in the
world, is set to join several other airports serviced...
by Delta and Continental in offering passengers the option to use their cellphones as boarding passes . The service will be available to ...
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American Airlines Brings Cellphone Boarding Passes to ...
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American Airlines Brings Cellphone Boarding Passes to O'Hare [Cellphones]
Gizmodo —
... . The service will be available to passengers departing from Los Angeles International and John Wayne Orange County airports starting on Nov. 17. [Chicago Tribune] ...
Phone as airline boarding pass coming to American Airlines
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... boarding pass program earlier this year.
American says it will expand the program to American Airlines travelers departing from Los Angeles International and John Wayne Orange County airports starting November 17.
Now, with US airlines starting to finally embrace technologies like in-flight internet access and mobile phone-based boarding passes, we’re sure to see the FAA start to upgrade their antiquated air-control system. Right?
[Via: Chicago Tribune]
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