Using your iPhone as a boarding pass
I saw this interesting post on Gerald Buckely’s blog: he tried to use his iPhone as an e-boarding pass on a flight from San Antonio to Dallas. And it worked!
”I asked the gate agent if he thought the PDF of my boarding pass would scan. He said, “I don’t know. Let’s try it.”
And, it worked great!
I asked him if AA had tried rolling anything like that out yet. He said not to his knowledge. He was impressed in the quality of the resolution of the barcode. Then a couple of other guys huddled around and got to thinking their Blackberry’s could display PDFs too…”
This is what I call co-creation! Innovation is all about spotting latent needs from consumers. This is clearly one of them!
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April 27, 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] Erick wrote an interesting post today on Using your iPhone as a boarding passHere’s a quick excerptI saw this interesting post on Gerald Buckely’s blog: he tried to use his iPhone as an e-boarding pass on a flight from San Antonio to Dallas. And it worked! ”I asked the gate agent if he thought the PDF of my boarding pass would scan. … [...]
April 27, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Erick - It worked really, really well. Yes, it was a bit geeky of me to do. However, I’m ALWAYS misplacing my boarding pass after queueing through security. I can assure you I’ll not be misplacing my iPhone anytime soon. So, why not use it as insurance now?
April 30, 2008 at 3:52 am
I have been thinking of doing this for months. I make a habit of emailing my boarding pass to myself, and now download the message on my iPhone for reference. I had wondered if this would work (I usually fly Continental), so I will try it next time.