Mobile phone to replace airline boarding pass soon

Bangalore: Soon mobile telephones would replace the physical air hose ticket. Passengers would just be required to blink their mobile telephone and addition entree to the terminus edifice and speedily complete boarding processes thereafter.

For the airports, it would intend efficient boarding and handling more figure of passengers.

Siemens Airport Systems Lab in Bangalore is working out a technology, which would replace the physical boarding pass.

"This is different from the installation being offered by some traveling portals and air hoses currently. When you book a ticket, the air hose directs you information like PNR number, etc as an SMS. This still intends that you necessitate to demo it at the air hose counter and take a black and white out. However, this new engineering plant just like Web check-in, where you can check-in, choice your place through the mobile telephone and then you have a 2D Barroom Code which would replace the boarding pass. You could blink it at the airdromes where a reader validates it and so wherever needed rider will utilize this barroom code," Ravi Shankar, Head of Aviation Systems, Mho Information Systems Ltd, told Business Line.

Cost-efficient

This engineering come ups under International Air Conveyance Association's (IATA) 'Simplifying the Business' programme, he added. In footing of cost too, Mho said that it would not be much as in footing of physical systems only few barroom codification readers would necessitate to be installed.

The company was not able to give a house estimation now as it is still someway to go. The company programs to run a airplane pilot undertaking with the same in Republic Of India by early adjacent twelvemonth in the new Hyderabad or Old Delhi airports. According to Shankar, Old Delhi airdrome looks more than likely in the aftermath of extroverted Commonwealth Games.

"We still necessitate to finalise a bearer for this engineering as it would necessitate a GSM operator. Some substructure issues also necessitate to be worked out like reader for the mobile telephones at the airdromes and a waiter somewhere," he said.

Deadline

With the events like Commonwealth Games there would be a demand for efficient boarding and handling more riders which the company sees as a good chance to implement such as a technology. IATA have already put June 1, 2008 as the deadline for '100 per cent electronic ticketing'. The industry will salvage over $3 billion annually through the same, according to the organisation.