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May 26, 2008 at 12:36 pm · Filed under General

Deal or no deal? Airline boarding passes via BlackBerryForget printing out your boarding pass. The coolest way to get it is on your PDA or cellphone. You order up the pass, show the screen to TSA reps and they scan the bar code. Saves paper and time. Or does it?

I tested the new Mobile Boarding Pass, as Continental Airlines calls it, this week at Newark International Airport (EWR) on the way back to Los Angeles from a New York visit. It’s available in only a few airports. Here’s what I found:

Deal: I saved paper and so, I figure, helped the environment. Plus I felt hip and high-tech. It was pretty easy. For quicker upload from my BlackBerry 8700g, I accessed Continental’s mobile site, which also links to useful info such as flight updates, seat maps and standby lists.

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Source: Daily Travel & Deal Blog

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  1. Blackberry Insider - All your Blackberry News » Deal or no deal? Airline boarding passes via BlackBerry said,

    May 26, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

    [...] Original post by k [...]

  2. Adeel Ayub said,

    May 26, 2008 @ 7:24 pm

    […] Original post by k […]

  3. SKhan said,

    May 26, 2008 @ 7:38 pm

    This issue took a good time in between RIM and indian government, BlackBerry success in india is still a question mark for me ??

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