In message <slv2i41qtbm5on3sfudeks416ufiuvkmei@4ax.com> Ron
<ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> was claimed to have wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/te...y/18check.html
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>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...0/ai_n30946155
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>TSA says Continetal was first.
The TSA says a lot of things.
Westjet has been doing paperless boarding using cellphones for many
moons now, although they don't scan the screen, instead the rep just
confirms the flight number and enters your sequence number, then
confirms the display on their screen matches your identification.
If you want to make the gate agent's day, hold the phone out and say
"sequence" followed by the three digit code, that saves them from
squinting and gets you through faster then scanning a barcode or other
paper solutions.
I don't believe Westjet offers this in the US yet, but they definitely
do for domestic Canadian flights.
You'll also note that this neatly solves the whole "two boarding passes"
trick for flying under a fake name by connecting the identification
check against the database records rather then hoping the customer
hasn't modified the paper that they printed at home.
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FIRST WITH PAPERLESS BOARDING USING CELL PHONES 
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