Would You Trust Your Phone to be an Electronic Airline Boarding Pass?
From the San Francisco Chronicle, an idea whose time has come. But, will it work?
SFO boarding passes go paperless
The article is about Continental trying out paperless electronic boarding passes at San Francisco airport. However, it also mentions that American, Alaska and Delta/Northwest also have electronic boarding pass services at 30 airports in the U.S. Continental sends their e-boarding to supported phones (the BlackBerry is the only one specifically mentioned in the article) which displays a barcode on the screen that is scanned at the gate.
Here are my questions though: Have you ever read the various stories and statistics about the number of lost cell phones in the U.S.
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