End of an era for the boarding pass

News at Gatwick 24/11/2008

Number of bidders now eye Gatwick Airport to purchase : November 2008 : Gatwick and Stansted Airports Must be sold in BAA Sale

Two new airlines have new technology to not need a boarding pass

Both Lufthansa and BMI have introduced new technology which will man there is no need for the old fashioned paper boarding card.

The new technology sends a bar code to the passenger’s mobile phone. It enables them to pass through security checkpoints and straight to the departure gate. A scanner can read the bar code wherever required.

The passenger would need to download the bar code from the airlines website. The service is already working on all Lufthansa services from Heathrow to Europe and will shortly be rolled out to all other UK airports.

BMI have been using the technology on services from Heathrow to Edinburgh and Manchester to Belfast City and the airline will shortly announce how it is rolling this out to its other routes and airports.

In America Continental Airlines has been using similar technology since March this year on selected routes.

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