Northwest Airlines Corp. is testing a paperless boarding pass that will let travelers use their mobile phones to board their plane.
Northwest will debut the E-Boarding pass in IND (Indianapolis) on Wednesday, 28th of May 2008. It will work like this: when a passenger checks in for a flight they can choose to send their boarding pass to their mobile phone or PDA instead of printing it out. The mobile device will then display a bar code like image on its screen, which will then be scanned by the gate agent at the boarding point. Continental is already testing a similar system in IAH (Houston). Northwest has plans to expand the system to other cities in the near future.
I believe it will take a long while before ERI (Erie) starts using such a system considering they don't have the scanners for easy boarding yet.
My only question is how smoothly are you going to get thru TSA security?
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