Boarding Pass Soon on Your Mobile

You are in a hurry and have forgotten to carry a print out of your air ticket/boarding pass. Not to worry. The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru will be the first airport in the country soon to allow passengers into the terminal using their mobile phones. It is environment-friendly by going paperless.

Announcing this the Joint Secretary of Civil Aviation, G.Asok Kumar said that this is being worked out at the Bengaluru airport and should be deployed soon. Passengers can use their mobiles for check-in, baggage handling etc.

Airlines around the world have started using electronic systems for check-in. Instead of using traditional paper tickets (Electronic boarding passes are also called paperless, mobile or eboarding passes), a passenger can download an electronic boarding pass to his or her web-enabled device (cell phone, Blackberry or iPhone, for instance). The boarding pass looks like a square bar code, which stores passenger name and flight information. When he or she gets to the security checkpoint, all that one has to do is show the bar code on the mobile screen and security staff will scan it. (You will also need to show personal ID.) The electronic boarding pass also works at the airline gates.