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Self-Boarding Comes to First US Airport

Houston experiment likely to spread

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 28, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

(Newser) – For Continental passengers flying out of Houston, boarding a plane has become a lot more like getting on the subway. The airport is the first in America to test "self-boarding" gates, in which passengers simply run their boarding passes through a machine before getting... Read full story »

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