Mobile Phones work as Boarding Passes in Houston
Go electronic with all your daily work!
When online booking of tickets was introduced, it was very new and innovative for all of us. Moving a step further, mobile phones come with additional high-tech features that can help to ease our overloaded work.
Houston-based Continental Airlines has tied up with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to come up with an outstanding technology for passengers to allow them to use their mobile phones or personal digital assistant to board flights, instead of a regular boarding pass.
This technology which was developed in a three-month test program could expand to airlines and airports in America. This paperless boarding pass enables passengers to show a code that the airlines have sent on their handsets or PDA, eliminating the paper passes. Airlines send a two-dimensional barcode, a jumble of squares and rectangles, which stores the passengers’ name and flight details.
With the help of a TSA handheld scanner, the barcode’s authenticity is confirmed. However, passengers are expected to show their photo identification as proof.
Earlier, fraudulent paper boarding passes were noticed. The electronic boarding pass would curb the same as the technology can’t be cracked by frauds.
At present, this program will be used solely by Continental flights at Intercontinental. And if a positive progress is experienced, it will be available to other airlines in next three months.
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