Board your flight by mobile phone
Posted by MattE on 18 May 2007 at 07:21 pm | Tagged as: SMS
An interesting story from AMTA – when we approached Australian airlines to investigate the technology for use in Australia, the response was that why bother with that when sending the ticket via email or having e-checking was free.
AMTA – Board your flight by mobile phone
Ubiquitous and well entrenched as mobile phones may be, some potential uses have yet to catch on in a big way. Such is the case with mobile check-in at airports.
A passenger survey at the end of last year by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) found only 2 per cent of respondents had checked in via an SMS (text message) on their mobile phones.
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