In a recent move that could save the airline industry half a billion dollars annually, the International Air Transport Association announced that it has successfully coaxed all of its 240 constituent airlines to move forward with “cellphone-as-ticket” technology.
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The International Herald Tribune is reporting that:
The formats permit a passenger to register a phone during booking to receive a text message containing a bar code that becomes a boarding pass. The bar code can then be read directly from the phone’s screen.
If this is half as convenient as it sounds, travelers are looking at lightning fast check-ins at the airport. Not to mention, it’s Minority Report cool!