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SAS Airlines' New Paperless Boarding Passes Will Help You Shop Duty-Free
SAS Airlines has joined the growing list of airlines allowing customers to check in with paperless 2D bar codes stored on their mobile. Passengers can have the boarding passes delivered either by SMS or via the SAS mobile site. The service will be available on domestic flights within Scandinavia and Finland, Intra Scandinavian flights, flights to Europe and Asia, and even some flights back from Europe:
SAS Scandinavian Airlines is now offering its passengers the convenience of mobile boarding passes. This means SAS customers can now travel using only their mobile phone and with an ID card/passport... The mobile boarding pass contains a 2D bar code that can be read electronically at the airport. The 2D bar code can be used to get baggage tags from the SAS Self Service kiosks, at security screening, duty-free shopping, entering SAS lounges and when boarding.
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The 'Earlybird Check-in' Gets The Overhead Storage On Southwest
How far would you go for first dibs on overhead bin space? On our recent flight back to New York, our plane ran out of overhead bin storage space for carry-ons just after half of the passengers had boarded, forcing the rest to rearrange last-minute and check what they would have preferred not to. But that is the price you pay for being late to the gate.
In an effort to give passengers what they want—more organized boarding and first access to overhead bins—while getting something they also love (money), Southwest is introducing their "Early Bird Check-in" option.
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Who Wants To Buy Paris Hilton's Boarding Pass?
Picture this: You sit down in your Air Pacific business class seat on your flight from New Zealand to Fiji. You open up your in-flight magazine and a boarding pass falls out. But not just any boarding pass: this one belonged to Paris Hilton, who was sitting in your very seat not too long ago.
This is exactly what happened for a Kiwi named Phil, who took home the unexpected bookmark, verified that it was legitimate, and then put it up for auction on New Zealand auction site Trade Me, with the description "This is a bit weird, but someone may want it". Much to his surprise—being self-confessed ignorant about quite how famous Paris Hilton is—the boarding pass started getting a heap of bids, at which point Phil decided to donate the proceeds of the sale to charity.
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Ryanair Now Charging $60 For The Boarding Pass Alone
Our whining about extra fees on Ryanair may be nothing new, but the ways that this airline can take the low cost out of low cost carrier is nothing short of extraordinary.
The move to make passengers pay for online check-in was despicable enough—we always thought that the online check-in saved the airline all that money in staff costs and thereby should remain free.
Nonetheless, Wednesday begins the deal to pay £5 ($7.50) to check in online (which will soon be the only way to check in), and Ryanair flyers will also have to print out our own boarding passes or add a £40 ($60) fee.
That's right, there's no fancy stuff like cell phone boarding passes for Ryanair. They want to see the good old paper ticket, and they want us to print it at home. When you're on the road, that's not always convenient, but a $60 charge otherwise is sure going to have us scrambling to find a printer if we are ever crazy enough to book a Ryanair flight again.
Related Stories:
· Ryanair Earns Worst Airline Ever Award With New Online Check-In Fee [Jaunted]
· What It Really Costs To Fly on Ryanair [Jaunted]
· Anti-Christ update; Ryanair launches home printed boarding pass fee plus a hefty fine [Plane Talking]
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How Often Do You Look at Your Boarding Pass?
True story. We have a friend who has a daughter - let's call the daughter Mary, not that it matters - who was traveling overseas for the first time. Of course she had an e-ticket, which she converted into a boarding pass at the counters.
Not to ruin the ending for you but: Mary would go through two screening checks, get her ID checked, and manage to board the plane all before anyone realized that she was holding someone else's boarding pass. She should never have been allowed into the terminal. TSA - really good at their jobs.
We imagine that Mary did pretty much the same thing everyone else does: she checked in, got her boarding pass, and slipped it into the envelope. By the time she glanced at it she was already on the plane. That's also apparently the first time anybody else glanced at it either.
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Paperless Travel: Qantas to Launch Cell Phone Check-In
Here at Jaunted we can have travel geek tendencies. We've been loving the paperless ticket world for a long time and love to check-in online too but have still been annoyed at how often we need to print out our own boarding pass--easy at home, not easy on the road. But slowly we're seeing alternatives and we like that a lot.
This week it's Aussie airline Qantas that's taking the paperless travel ideal further. From early next year they're introducing an entirely paperless check-in option which will involve passengers getting a barcode sent to their cell phone for scanning at the boarding gate.
Two reasons we especially love this kind of airline geekiness: Less paper (we're green, too) and harder to lose--our cell phone is always near. We can't wait to get our first mobile barcode.
Related Stories:
· Mobile Phones and PDAs to Act As Qantas Boarding Passes [The Australian]
· Subway Travel: London's Oyster Coming to Cell Phones [Jaunted]
[Photo: Tom Loth]
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Is Southwest's New Boarding Policy Bogus?
Let us present you with Exhibit A, Figure 1: This is a snapshot of boarding passes that we printed out yesterday for our Southwest flight from Oakland to Los Angeles.
Our travel partner, Michael Z, was able to check us in at the same time, since we purchased the tickets together. However, Michael was given the seating group A 57 while we were given B 26. What the heck?
We know that the first 10 rows or so are reserved for Southwest's Business Select passengers who pony up around $15 extra to get in the A group. But those people aside, we always thought your seating group was based on the time that you checked in. (As in, a passenger checking in seven hours before a flight would have a better boarding assignment than a passenger checking in at the airport.)
Here's something that may secretly be in play: We fly way more than Michael Z, especially on Southwest. But he's been a member of Rapid Rewards longer than we have. So is boarding group based on frequent flier status? And is the new boarding process less democratic than we previously thought?
Related Stories:
· Southwest Announces "Business Select" Fares, Priority Boarding [Jaunted]
· First-Person Flight Reviews: Southwest Airlines' New Boarding Policy [Jaunted]
