Continental Airlines First To Try BlackBerry Boarding Passes

 
We’ve been hearing about “paperless boarding passes” for years and it looks like Continental Airlines users flying out of Houston will be the first passengers in the country able to use their BlackBerry or other compatible mobile device to check-in in lieu of the paper based boarding passes that we are all accustomed to.

We have been in favor of this for a long time and had fairly consistent dialogue with TSA on our desire to do this,” said Mark Bergsrud, a senior vice president for Houston-based Continental. “We were ready technically and we are pretty nimble with our ability to develop software and test it.

Continental passegers departing out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston initially will be the only travelers able to check in with their mobile device. If successful, however, the program may be rolled out to other airlines in about three months.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on December 5th, 2007 with 6 comments.
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#1. December 5th, 2007, at 3:41 PM.

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#2. December 5th, 2007, at 3:41 PM.

Air Canada launched this in September 2007:

http://www.aircanada.com/en/news/070921.html?src=hp_wn

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#3. December 5th, 2007, at 4:50 PM.

I can’t wait for this

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#4. December 5th, 2007, at 5:10 PM.

WestJet has been doing this for a while, as well. http://tinyurl.com/2se2×7

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#5. December 7th, 2007, at 4:08 PM.

TecnoCHICA: una imagen. Esto se está  probarlo en el Aeropuerto de Houston, donde está su hub, por medio de tickets ...

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#6. December 7th, 2007, at 4:29 PM.

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