Japanese Airline Rolls Out Wireless Chip Check-In

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:34PM from the no-lines-no-fuss-wave-of-the-future dept.

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."

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Just show up and get on the plane, hunh ? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-08-31 15:46 · Score: 0, Troll

So like, they spent a billion dollars and used capabilities of chip industry and cell phone networks that are the product of generations of engineering effort, and got us back to a 1950s level of civilization, but only for those who are both rich and obsequious ?

Nice.