<http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Paperless-Boarding-Passes-Ahead/story.xhtml?story_id=13000DK6C1JE>Paperless<http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Paperless-Boarding-Passes-Ahead/story.xhtml?story_id=13000DK6C1JE> Boarding Passes Set To Take Off By Thomas Frank October 23, 2008 7:18AM
The boarding passes are e-mailed to a passenger's cellphone or PDA and appear on screen as a bar code. At security checkpoints, a TSA screener scans the code with a $1,000 handheld device, which displays a passenger's name and flight information for comparison to a passenger ID. Passengers can still use traditional paper boarding passes. Latest News [] Entrepreneurs Need Space Access [] U.S. Plans $7.6B Super Storm Tracker [] Computerized Solace for Astronauts? [] American, Russians Return from ISS [] Depression Linked to Preterm Delivery [] Airplane boarding passes will increasingly be electronic bar codes that passengers display on cellphones and personal digital assistants instead of paper documents, airline and government officials say. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), after testing paperless boarding passes at a few airports to make sure they are secure, plans a nationwide expansion in the next year, spokesman Christopher White said. Delta Airlines, which uses paperless boarding passes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, plans to expand them soon to Atlanta, Orlando and Salt Lake City, spokeswoman Betsy Talton said. Alaska Airlines just started using paperless boarding passes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and could expand next year to Los Angeles, Anchorage and Portland, Ore., spokeswoman Marianne Lindsey said. The boarding passes are e-mailed to a passenger's cellphone or PDA and appear on screen as a bar code. At <http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=8491>security<http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=8491> checkpoints, a TSA screener scans the code with a $1,000 handheld device, which displays a passenger's name and flight information for comparison to a passenger ID. Passengers can still use traditional paper boarding passes. The TSA requires airlines to add security features to the electronic bar codes to help spot a forged boarding pass. The agency must approve airlines' plans to use paperless boarding passes. Paperless boarding passes are expanding overseas, too. Last month, Lufthansa began allowing passengers to use the passes on all 1,000 of its daily flights from Germany to other European destinations. Air France, KLM and smaller European airlines also use paperless boarding passes. "Within two to four years, it's going to be standard across Europe," said Oliver Wagner, a vice president of Lufthansa. The International Air Transport Association, an airline trade group that has created global criteria for boarding passes, recently added the TSA security requirement to its standard for paperless passes, said Eric Leopold of IATA. "The U.S. is the only country ... that has such a requirement," he said. Since the TSA first OK'd paperless boarding passes in December, Continental Airlines has started using them at six airports, including Houston Intercontinental and Newark Liberty, and will add Cleveland Hopkins as its seventh airport on Thursday. Northwestern uses them in Indianapolis. United Airlines plans to start using paperless boarding passes next year, spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said. The boarding passes are used mostly by "the business customer who is used to having all their information" in a handheld computer, Continental spokeswoman Mary Clark said. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage ~ Share your faith <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.flickr.com/groups/holypostage/>Holy Postage on <http://www.flickr.com/groups/holypostage/>Flickr <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://holypostage.mofuse.mobi/>Holy Postage on your Mobile <*}}}>< Holy Postage ~ Share your faith <http://holypostage.mofuse.mobi/> Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage ~ Share your faith <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.flickr.com/groups/holypostage/>Holy Postage on <http://www.flickr.com/groups/holypostage/>Flickr <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://holypostage.mofuse.mobi/>Holy Postage on your Mobile <*}}}>< Holy Postage ~ Share your faith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
