[cdg] Computer News - Airport Check-In Via Text Messaging On Cell Phones
- From: "Donny Duncan" <ravers_deelite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:44:24 -0500
Pulled from Google News (http://google.com/news)
Airport Check-In Via Text Messaging On Cell Phones
Frequent Fliers on Finnair will be get flight info and seat assigments as text
messages on their cells. Once they reply, they are checked in.
In what it calls a first in international air travel, Finnair says it will let
its frequent fliers check in using text messages on mobile phones.
The program begins in October and is open to the airline's Finnair Plus
cardholders. It will let those passengers who have only carry-on luggage go
directly to the departure gate, bypassing ordinary check-in procedures. Like
other passengers, they will have to go through a metal detector and security
check.
Once passengers have activated the service, they will automatically receive a
check-in text message from Finnair before a flight with details, including the
seat number. A passenger need only send a reply to confirm the seat assignment.
The text message service will apply to all international flights leaving from
Helsinki and Stockholm.
Finnair said its check-in using SMS, or Short Message Service, is the first
worldwide to work on all mobile phone models and all networks without charges.
Other airlines offer similar services that notify passengers of flight delays,
schedules or available seats.
Donny Duncan
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