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Boarding passes and check-ins could be scrapped in travel shake-up

by wr1472 on 4/11/25, 5:53 PM with 23 comments

  • by jdlshore on 4/11/25, 7:18 PM

    The airline ticketing industry is run by a massive pile of shared legacy code. (Except Southwest, which has a different pile of legacy code, as I understand it.) Changing it seems like a really big deal.

    What I didn’t see in the article was anything about the motivation for this change. Why undertake such an expensive revision to boarding systems? Who is benefiting?

  • by CalRobert on 4/11/25, 6:34 PM

    But I don’t -want- my face scanned constantly
  • by JumpCrisscross on 4/11/25, 7:33 PM

    Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43656433

    (“Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter” [1].)

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • by dan_can_code on 4/11/25, 10:08 PM

    I really don't think this is a good idea. There's already enough digitisation with physical back up in this situation. I think this is a case of not fixing something that isn't broken.

    This is also quite scary.

    > airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.

  • by MandieD on 4/11/25, 7:04 PM

    And if your phone gets lost or stolen in the middle of your international journey...
  • by aussieguy1234 on 4/11/25, 11:05 PM

    So, what happens if your phone dies between check in and the boarding gate?
  • by shaky-carrousel on 4/11/25, 6:49 PM

    Hah, as a programmer, thanks but no thanks.