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Boarding Passes Are So Last Year

Many airlines are transitioning to using cell phones instead

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 19, 2008 1:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – Airlines are working on transitioning their electronic check-in systems to allow passengers to use their cell phones as boarding passes. Continenal is the first to test the system, in which a scannable bar code is displayed on the phone's screen, and the passenger never has... Read full story »

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