Delta introduces iPhone boarding passes

via iPhoneCTO

delta-boarding-pass11Fly the friendly skies with your iPhone. Not only can you now use Wi-Fi on Delta flights, but you can use your iPhone as a boarding pass.

Featured in Sky Magazine, Delta is starting to promote what it calls Paperless Check-In. If your flight originates from LaGuardia, Indianapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul or Detroit, you can present your iPhone displaying your electronic boarding pass to TSA agents and at the gate to board your flight.

The mechanics are rather simple. On your iPhone visit http://mobile.delta.com. Voila! What is unclear, however, is if this works regardless of where you get your ticket or if it must be purchased directly from delta.com.

If your city isn’t on the list, it’s because they are in the testing phase. Paperless Check-In will soon be rolled out to Atlanta, Las Vegas, Memphis, Orlando, and Salt Lake City.

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  • Awesome. Hopefully they won't stamp the little TSA logo on the face of my iPhone, like they do on the paper boarding pass.
  • Does this also work with an iPod Touch?
    Thanks!
  • Walt French
    When I travel from the Minneapolis airport (which has maybe a majority of its flights by just-acquired-by-Delta Northwest Air), I see perhaps one person in thirty use the E-boarding pass. All of 'em iPhones.

    Works pretty well for the security folks. Even last time when I'd inadvertently scrolled the code grid to the top of my screen, it only took a sec to fix and the big letters on the interpreting machine seem a LOT easier to decode than the 10-point, randomly-formatted info on paper boarding passes. (Plus the machine seems to verify that the pass is relevant to entering at the particular date/time, so it could be that all that's necessary is to verify that it matches my ID.)
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