Entry

Get Charged Up For Boarding

Mar 15th, 2007 07:34
Harish Kohli, http://www.awimaway.com

Paper boarding passes will soon be a thing of the past. Scottish 
design firm Real Time Engineering has helped develop the RT-
MobiTicket, a mobile-phone-based boarding pass. How does it work? When 
you check in online, your boarding pass will be sent to your phone as 
a text message. The message is a barcode, which ordinary airport 
scanners can read. The RT-MobiTicket launches in March 2007 and all 
you need for it to work is a mobile phone – a phone that is charged 
up, that is. The alternative, for those who forget to charge their 
phones or for the generally phone-averse, is to queue up for the old-
style paper passes. UK-based tour operator AwimAway (020 7430 1766, 
www.awimaway.com) is already gearing up to become one of the first 
operators to offer tickets to their clients with this latest 
technology.
Harish Kohli
http://www.awimaway.com