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Soon, You'll Be Able to Check In via iPad on These Airlines

March 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM | by | Comments (0)

This might become the year for electronic boarding passes. Sure, there have been plenty of airlines offering airplane access via smartphone for some time, but it’s no longer just for elite flyers leaving from some of the nation’s busiest airports. Especially now that United Airlines is the latest to ditch the paper and head to the promised land.

Last week United starting using mobile boarding passes at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport, and they've quickly expanded their offerings to other major markets including Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco—among a few other locations. As long as everything works out well, they plan to be in about 30 different cities by this summer, so maybe you can flash that new iPad to board the plane as you begin your summer vacation.

United is a little late to join the party, as most of the major US carriers have already been offering this service. Among the legacy carriers, only US Airways has remained quiet with its mobile offerings, but we’re thinking now that their partners in the Star Alliance including United and Continental have gone the way of electronic boarding passes, they will finally reveal something this year.

American Airlines isn’t just waiting on the sidelines, as they’ve decided to up their offerings after launching their own service in 2008. The airline is going from about three eligible airports to 27 in total. Some of the new options include airports serving Charlotte, Jacksonville, Phoenix, and Atlanta. They’ve also finally offered things up at their home base of Dallas/Fort Worth—took them long enough.

International carriers like Lufthansa, Air Canada, and SAS are all happy to save a few trees, but the low-cost carriers have been too busy saving cash to bother with updates to their IT department. We’re sure there are some nerds eager to deploy these services, so maybe we’ll finally get to head off to T5 at JFK for our JetBlue flight with only our iPhone to guide us.

Related Stories:
· No Paper Boarding Passes Needed For United Fliers [Chicago Tribune]
· American Airlines Offering Mobile Boarding Passes at DIA, 26 Other Airports [Denver Business Journal]
· Alaska Airlines Joins The Electronic Boarding Pass Party [Jaunted]

[Photo of Continental's Technology: tom.arthur]

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