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From the News Desk
Friday, 14. March 2008
Airline Boarding Pass to Be Replaced by Mobile Phones
Come next year, you might not have to carry an airline ticket to board a train, your mobile phone will do. Under the International Air Transport Association's 'Simplifying the Business' programme, Siemens Airport Systems is working on a technology that will use mobile phones to replace a physical boarding pass.
However, this new technology works just like Web check-in, where you can check-in, select your seat through the mobile phone and then you receive a 2D Bar Code which would replace the boarding pass. You could flash it at the airports where a reader validates it and so wherever required passenger will use this bar code.
There is still work to be completed, but Siemens expects to have the system in place, at least in Delhi or the new Hyderabad airports. According to Ravi Shankar, Head of Aviation Systems, Siemens Information Systems, there are infrastructure issues to be chalked out, like the GSM operator needs to be finalised.
However, this new technology works just like Web check-in, where you can check-in, select your seat through the mobile phone and then you receive a 2D Bar Code which would replace the boarding pass. You could flash it at the airports where a reader validates it and so wherever required passenger will use this bar code.
There is still work to be completed, but Siemens expects to have the system in place, at least in Delhi or the new Hyderabad airports. According to Ravi Shankar, Head of Aviation Systems, Siemens Information Systems, there are infrastructure issues to be chalked out, like the GSM operator needs to be finalised.
