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Japanese Airline Rolls Out Wireless Chip Check-In

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Not new by sam_paris · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ticketless check isn't new i've done this with British Airways for every flight i've taken this year.

    1. Re:Not new by kneuk · · Score: 3, Informative

      BTW, ANA's SKiP! service is started last year Sept 1 2006, not today.

  2. won't work in the U.S by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    too many terrists

  3. walk straight through security? by dfm3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know how it is in many other parts of the world, but on domestic flights in the US, usually the biggest bottleneck is not at the ticket counter (unless you're checking a bag) or at the gate, but at security. If you already carry on all of your luggage and print your boarding pass at home, would this technology really speed things up that much?

  4. Airport security by STDK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I travel in Europe, Asia and the US. And trust me, even "the rest of the world" is wasting huge amount of money on useless security features. My home carrier (SAS) write on there homepage under security "...in order for you to feel safe ..." basically admitting most of it is useless.

    Let us take the two most annoying rules:

    The Liquid rule:
    The 100ml of water rule is an EU rule to prevent us from smuggling large amount of liquid (uh uh) on-board. Can't have all that water. Anyhow, lets say we - evil terrorist group - want to bring 2 liters of, I donno, liquid nitroglycerin onboard. I buy 19 tickets from Helsinki to Munich and 1 from Helsinki to New York. Inside the "safe" zone I bring out my legal 2 liter empty coke bottle and collect the stuff from the other 19 people.

    The Drop-Belt-Shoes-Jacket-screening:
    IF I am committed to blowing up a plane, which will eventually most likely course my own death, I might be able to accept swallowing 40x5g C4 in condoms. Puke them up once in the plane or time it with the natural urge. And if I dislike puking, let me just stick a few sticks of dynamite up my ass and use my MP3 player to blow the fucking thing up.

    Really, how hard can it be. We get NOTHING - except higher air fares - for the 2h wasted in airports all over the world

    STDK