NevOn: Flight check-in with your mobile phone

17 November 2004

Flight check-in with your mobile phone

Coming next year - check in for your flight, change your seat, baggage drop-off info, all via your mobile phone.

Reuters reports that Siemens of Germany and Amsterdam-based SITA Inc have teamed up to develop the service, which uses GPRS for sending information to mobile phones.

Reuters | Speedy Plane Check-In by Mobile Phone Set for 2005

So yet more great choice for the traveller. Airlines like British Airways offer online check-in up to one hour before departure in all locations (except the US, where it's two hours before departure).

Not only that, with BA you can print out your own boarding card on your PC at some locations (works in Amsterdam). Convenient.

Nov 17, 2004 6:16:00 AM | Travel, Web/Tech

The comments to this entry are closed.

Great Firefox extensions and other neat things Steve Rubel writes about some very cool extensions for the Firefox browser - Spellbound, Bloglines and Scrapbook. Get the details from Steve's post. I want to mention one of them here, though - Spellbound. I'd not heard of this one....

More than meets the eye in Delta employee blogger case An interesting angle on the story of the Delta Airlines employee blogger fired for posting photos of herself in uniform on her personal blog was reported in yesterday's New York Times. The NY Times piece discusses the background to the...