iPhone as electronic airplane boarding pass

Some airlines have been allowing BlackBerrys to be used as electronic boarding passes and soon standard cell phones will follow.

Now there is news of the iPhone being used to board a plane. Blogger Gerald Buckley writes about how he was allowed to board an American Airlines flight from San Antonio to Dallas by having the gate agent scan the bar code of the ticket on a PDF displayed on his iPhone.

Don't think you can waltz quickly to the gate by flashing your iPhone, though. Buckley makes it clear that he showed TSA his paper boarding pass to get through security.

[jelloburn]

At Blockbuster

We had a customer that had an online coupon displayed on his <br />iPhone that we were able to scan and use in store. <br /><br />Of course we still had to write the number down for record <br />keeping, but it seems like a great potential paper saver if stores <br />were to begin using a method like this for customers who choose <br />to go that route.

[bikes365]

ZElectronic boarding pass

In Canada West jet has been using epasses for a little while now. Just show your phone or pda to board.