Bluetooth flight check-in and boarding — Sabre builds a prototype

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Just when you may be getting used to online check-in and mobile boarding passes for your flights, Sabre has built a prototype for a system that would use Bluetooth technology to enable passengers to check-in for their flights and board the aircraft.

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British Airways launches mobile boarding passes, upgrades app

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BA is to start the gradual roll-out of mobile boarding passes for routes across its network as part of the suite of tools for its upgraded smartphone apps.

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Travel tech can be an odd-size area

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I was waiting for my suitcase this afternoon in Terminal C at Newark Airport, having just arrived on a Continental flight from Orlando, where I attended the PhoCusWright conference, when I saw a sign on the luggage carousel.

It cracked me up.

If you want to retrieve “odd size items” like skis, boxes and car seats, you’ll have to meander over to the “odd size area behind carousel 9,” the sign reads.

Hey, it sounds like a lot more fun than walking over to a normal-size area to retrieve your odd size items.

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