| How often have you been preparing to go
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| | boarding passes, with passengers
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| on holiday when disaster strikes and you
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| | registering their fingerprints upon
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| can't find the super secret hiding place
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| | arrival.
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| you put the plane tickets months ago?
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| | Mobile Phones are not only being used
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| Many people have experienced this panic
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| | like this for boarding passes but also in
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| and with new proposals being put forward
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| | other ticket related arenas. One other
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| soon we may be able to cut out this added
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| | such use is tickets for music concerts.
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| stress to our pre-holiday regimen.
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| | Earlier this year at London's Hammersmith
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| The International Air Transport
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| | Apollo, Nokia sponsored a Guns n' Roses
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| Association (IATA), a trade association
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| | concert and used it as the perfect
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| representing and the airline industry,
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| | platform to launch its TicketRush
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| has agreed on a new method of checking in
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| | venture, where concert-goers order their
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| for flights where travellers can have a
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| | tickets and are sent a text message with
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| bar code on their mobile phones scanned
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| | a unique code to present at the door.
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| upon arrival.
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| | The scheme was deemed enough of a success
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| Many people currently are able to print
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| | that later in this year other artists are
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| out their flight information at home over
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| | joining Nokia to provide mobile phone
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| the internet and bring that to airport as
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| | ticket allocation for popular artists,
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| opposed to the old magnetic strip
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| | with as Kasabian, Rihanna and Queens of
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| tickets, but with air travel receiving
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| | The Stone Age all listed as upcoming
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| heavy criticism from the "green crowd"
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| | dates.
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| IATA has clearly seen mobile phones as a
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| | The use of this system helps provide a
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| more eco-friendly method of getting
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| | more secure way for fans to get a ticket,
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| passenger's tickets to them.
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| | since in the past ticket touts would
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| These plans have already been given the
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| | scour the crowds outside venues with
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| green light and now major airlines are
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| | convincing fake tickets to sell at
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| considering implementing them. British
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| | extortionate prices, only for punters to
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| Airways and Virgin Atlantic have
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| | be turned away at the door.
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| expressed their interest whilst Ryanair
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| | Another similar use has been at
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| has dismissed the idea.
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| | Manchester City Football Club, again to
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| BA in particular has some concerns, since
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| | provide more security and convenience to
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| there is no universal standard with
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| | the customer. A spokesman says: "Mobile
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| mobile phones such as screen size and
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| | contactless services will mean the end of
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| media messaging capabilities. Some
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| | bulging wallets - there will be no need
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| airlines have expressed concerns over the
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| | to carry credit and debit cards, travel
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| added work involved, citing that the
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| | cards, loyalty cards and security passes.
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| whole process benefits the passenger but
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| | And, we will still be able to provide the
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| causes extra trouble for the airlines.
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| | information and match information for
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| If these concerns are resolved then the
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| | football fans on their mobile phones."
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| scheme could be rolled out as early as
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| | There have even been talks for mobile
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| 2008, with a target for the old
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| | phones to be used as methods of payment
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| paper-based tickets to be obsolete by
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| | for food outlets and the club store at
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| 2010. If this were to happen then there
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| | the venue.
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| is a potential saving of $500m (about
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| | So it seems that mobile phones are on the
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| £250m) by adopting the paperless system.
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| | brink of gaining a whole new batch of
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| But as with most technological advances,
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| | uses, showing there are many new and
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| the Far East is already pioneering these
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| | convenient ways of integrating into our
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| practices and Tokyo's Narita Airport uses
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| | lives and culture.
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| mobile phones equipped with barcodes as
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