More Airports Using Paperless Boarding Passes

PlusMore Airports Using Paperless Boarding PassesMore Airports Using Paperless Boarding PassesThe Associated PressAir travelers whose cell phones get e-mail now have more airports where they can utilize paperless boarding passes for Continental Airlines flights. (May 28)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ((Newark, NJ)) Get ready for "paperless" air travel. NATS: beep We're all use to e-tickets, but now Continental Airlines and the T-S-A are rolling out the electronic boarding pass at several airports across the country. ((Lara Uselding, Transportation Security Administration)) "T-S-A created the concept. Continental came up with the software behind this to ensure authenticity of the electronic boarding pass." Travelers appear to like the paperless option. "That's pretty wild." ((Robert Gower, Traveler)) "It's very convenient, you get it at home, and then you go right to the airport, I think it speeds the process up." Here's how it works: Using a computer or cell phone passengers "check in" electronically before a flight, by entering the confirmation code from an e-ticket. A boarding pass is then emailed to the passenger's cell phone. It has an encrypted bar code on it with the passenger's name and flight info. NATS: beepThen a T-S-A officer just scans the person in through security. ((Jared Miller, Continental Airlines)) "If you think about the business traveler, who may not have access to a printer or fax machine, they now can use that mobile phone or PDA, skip the counters and go straight to the checkpoint." The T-S-A says the paperless system is not only good for the environment, by saving paper, but is more secure than the paper boarding pass. "This is another great security layer for us at the airport because it's helping to make sure that people aren't coming through with fraudulent boarding passes." Some travelers, however, fear it may be an open invitation to hackers.((Sean Boland, Traveler)) "I'm sure somebody will figure out some way, they always do." The paperless boarding passes are now available for flights out of Newark, Houston, Boston and Ronald Reagan Washington National. Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, Newark, New Jersey

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[denicpetar]

haahha. Bar code ...

[TruthandJustice101]

I don't like this.

This just opens the way to hackers and another 9/11

[vax86]

maricani va

[Galweeg]

IControlMyQueendom - you sound like a paranoid crackpot. Are the aliens out to get us too?

[rachlmom3]

How is this a benefit? Either way a person is manually identifying the identity of the passenger. The only "real" advantage is for a traveler who does not have easy access to a printer. Otherwise making a paper copy or a downloaded pass will accomplish the same, wait on the TSA line for an agent to view the pass and ID.

[rongee90]

Oh well, you better stop using email, your computer, oh and the internet...

[IControlMyQueendom]

Bar code?Mmmmm it's in front of us everyday and yet we just let it happen because they say it's all about convience.Next thing you know people will volunteer to have their eyes scan,chips implanted in their bodies,bar codes on food,clone animals and humans<OH wait, we have that already.PLEASE PEOPLE WAKE UP AND STOP SUPPORTING THESE SO CALLED ADVANCE WAYS OF CONTROL AND DOMINATION!

[art83moni]

World domination!

[anarkotik]

hi there!

well, personally for me it is useless...

1. you will still need to print out your boarding pass as a proof that you actually have flied...

2. what if your cell phone can be broken or stolen...

3. in the airport, at the stand of checking-in, there are machines that print out your Boarding Pass - all you need is your passport & confirmation number for e-ticket...

right?

[thyan69]

Kewl...