eboardingpass.com
The mobile handset is going to be the key to the airlines’ next step as well: the eboardingpass.com . IATA is helping to work out the kinks in a uniform system to allow passengers to print their boarding passes at home, using a unique barcode, with which some airlines are experimenting already. At the same time, IATA is pushing self check-in systems that have been installed in some two dozen airports around the world.
Combine the two, and self check-in with the mobile handset, with the airline sending an MMS with the bar code and some basic information would be a logical next development step for China’s busy airlines and overcrowded airports.
At least it would eliminate the problem of a dozen people cutting into the check-in queue at the airport.