First US Carrier To Offer Paperless Boarding From International Destination

Mobile boarding passes launched by Continental Airlines at Frankfurt Airport

Continental Airlines today expanded its mobile boarding pass service to Frankfurt Airport, becoming the first US carrier to offer paperless boarding passes outside of the United States.

Air Travel

Airlines expanding cellphone boarding passes

More travelers are gaining a new weapon to help them avoid the long lines at the airport this spring and summer: their cellphones.

Electronic Boarding Passes

Air travellers using phones as boarding pass at nine US airports

Airline passengers are using their iPhones and BlackBerries as their boarding pass at nine airports around the United States.

Desperate times and desperate measures

Ads to be printed on airline boarding passes

Six international airlines have opened the door to advertisers with a new initiative that will allow ads to appear on boarding passes printed following online check-in.

Australia

Mobile phone boarding pass scheme ready for takeoff

(TVLW) - AIRLINE passengers in Australia could soon be able to use their mobile phones as boarding passes under a new scheme to be trialled this year.

We can already watch movies, take photographs, read newspapers and play games, but airlines have now agreed on a new type of technology to allow the phone to be used to board aircraft.