O’Hare launch mobile boarding passes

USA Today

USA Today

Chicago O’Hare airport will join other airports serviced by Delta & Continental in offering the option to use mobile phones as boarding passes. The way it works is a 2d barcode is loaded onto your phone’s screen and the TSA scanners can apparently scan it like a paper barcode.

There are some potential problems though. Sometimes it doesn’t work if the screen is too glossy, on some phones the boarding pass vanishes when a call comes in, its not compatible with all phones etc etc.  However its a start and thats a good thing.

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