Comments on: Delta testing cell phone-based airline check-in

If you're flying from New York's LaGuardia Airport to elsewhere in the U.S., you'll be able to check in with a mobile Web boarding pass on your cell phone.

[chordok]

This is also being tested at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta...Delta's home and primary hub.

[Pishkado]

British airline BMI has had this for some time now. Because cell phone screens vary, they send the bar code in three sizes. The display cycles through them on the (usually correct) assumption that the reader will be able to figure out at least one.

As so often happens, we Americans don't think something exists until we have it, at which point we think we invented it. Kinda like Windows users thinking a feature doesn't exist until Windows gets it, even if Linux and Mac OS have had it for years! :)

[docnilay]

I checked in on a Continental flight out of Newark airport last month. The "electronic" boarding pass I presented on my Apple iPhone at first confused the pre-screeners, who typically check ID and write an "x" on the boarding pass. My benefit- the lady pre-screened me and escorted me to the front of the security line to let the next TSA person know that I had been properly screened... it was great!