Comments on: British Airways get into mobile ticketing http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/05/british_airways_get_into_mobile_ticketing.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:01:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dlethe01 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/05/british_airways_get_into_mobile_ticketing.html/comment-page-1#comment-51623 dlethe01 Thu, 17 May 2007 22:45:08 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/05/british_airways_get_into_mobile_ticketing.html#comment-51623 Paul Coby is chairman of airline industry IT body SITA and CIO of British Airways. We also know that Gavitec has designed and implemented a full solution mobile ticketing, mobile check in (biometric fingerprint) service in collaboration with Siemens Business Services and SITA. Company presentation (July 2006) – Page 30 (PDF File) http://www.gavitec.com/fileadmin/template/main/downloads/MD_CorporatePresentation_F0607.pdf IATA knows the value of Gavitec/Neomedia (Gavitec is a subsidiary of Neomedia). "Gavitec, a specialist in designing and manufacturing flexible 2D code readers for mobile technology has become an IATA Strategic Partner for 2D bar code." http://www.iata.org/html_email/3954300-stb-newsletter/stb_enewsletter_March07.htm http://www.iata.org/sp/PartnerDetail?partner=1712 Neomedia/Gavitec is part of the MC2 http://www.mobilecodes.org/ Paul Coby is chairman of airline industry IT body SITA and CIO of British Airways.
We also know that Gavitec has designed and implemented a full solution mobile ticketing, mobile check in (biometric fingerprint) service in collaboration with Siemens Business Services and SITA.

Company presentation (July 2006) – Page 30 (PDF File)
http://www.gavitec.com/fileadmin/template/main/downloads/MD_CorporatePresentation_F0607.pdf

IATA knows the value of Gavitec/Neomedia (Gavitec is a subsidiary of Neomedia).
“Gavitec, a specialist in designing and manufacturing flexible 2D code readers for mobile technology has become an IATA Strategic Partner for 2D bar code.”
http://www.iata.org/html_email/3954300-stb-newsletter/stb_enewsletter_March07.htm
http://www.iata.org/sp/PartnerDetail?partner=1712

Neomedia/Gavitec is part of the MC2
http://www.mobilecodes.org/

]]> By: Mark http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/05/british_airways_get_into_mobile_ticketing.html/comment-page-1#comment-51455 Mark Thu, 17 May 2007 09:28:34 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/05/british_airways_get_into_mobile_ticketing.html#comment-51455 This is a really cool feature... We looked at this two years ago and helped an airline to get it to work on a number of different sized screens but at the time the CAA wouldn't allow its use... One of the problems is that you need to have a standard that all airlines accept or have a way of printing a boarding pass based on the bar code. Different types of bar code need different scanning readers so you could end up with 10 readers at the security point and a queue the length of the airport. If that issue could be resolved you then need to have a fall back position just in case the persons bar code cannot be scanned for any reason. You also may need to receive the text for the return part of your journey while abroad as usually you can only check in on or near the day of departure (CAA rules I think...?). We are introducing the new PNR ticket number option to ShopQwik which gives the passenger a number which can be typed into a kiosk near the time of flying and have the boarding pass printed. Its been working in the states for ages and now will be a global standard from 1st of jan 08. I think it would be really cool if this trial works out because anything that speeds up air travel is a good thing. Mark This is a really cool feature… We looked at this two years ago and helped an airline to get it to work on a number of different sized screens but at the time the CAA wouldn’t allow its use…

One of the problems is that you need to have a standard that all airlines accept or have a way of printing a boarding pass based on the bar code. Different types of bar code need different scanning readers so you could end up with 10 readers at the security point and a queue the length of the airport. If that issue could be resolved you then need to have a fall back position just in case the persons bar code cannot be scanned for any reason.

You also may need to receive the text for the return part of your journey while abroad as usually you can only check in on or near the day of departure (CAA rules I think…?).

We are introducing the new PNR ticket number option to ShopQwik which gives the passenger a number which can be typed into a kiosk near the time of flying and have the boarding pass printed. Its been working in the states for ages and now will be a global standard from 1st of jan 08.

I think it would be really cool if this trial works out because anything that speeds up air travel is a good thing.

Mark

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