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Article: Top airports 'moving to paperless travel'.
- Article from:
- TradeArabia (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Byline: Kuala Lumpur
Most of the world's leading airport operators (80 per cent) are moving towards paperless travel and intend to make passenger self-service the primary channel for check-in, according to a new global survey.
And 52 per cent rated the introduction of 'electronic documents' as the technology which will have the most significant impact at airports in the near future, initially driven by the adoption of bar-coded boarding passes sent directly to mobile phones -- a key enabler for genuinely paperless travel.
The 6th annual Sita Airport IT Trends survey, co-sponsored by Airline Business and the Airports Council International (ACI), ...