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



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