Japanese Airline Rolls Out Wireless Chip Check-In

ThinkPad760 writes "Early in September All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan will complete their rollout of a ticketless check-in and boarding pass service called SKiP! You book the ticket online thru either a computer or your mobile phone. Prior to arriving at the airport, you 'place' the ticket onto your IC-chipped ANA Mileage card, or have the booking dowloaded into your IC-enabled phone. When you get to the airport you just wave your mobile or IC card at the reader. It confirms your booking, the light turns green, and off you go to the gate. At the gate it's the same thing. I've been using this service out of Haneda to Osaka for the past year. It is fantastic. Since I never have to check bags, I turn up to the airport just short while before my flight, walk straight through security and onto the plane."

Comments

won't work in the U.S

[Anonymous Coward]

too many terrists

Verify the phone only

[flyingfsck]

Cool, this makes 100% sure that the correct cell phones fly on the planes. No terrorist cell phones will ever make it past this system. I feel safer already.

Re:Airport security

[karnal]

let me just stick a few sticks of dynamite up my ass

Oh great, now everyone with a severe case of hemmrhoids (sp?) will be labelled a terrorist, thanks to you. You don't think you'd be walking a little bit funny with all that dynamite up your ass?